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Originally Posted by jgannon
...but don't make a habit of doing it that way. Get a dongle. Build one yourself, or order Andymark's. The competition port is not fused, and some pins are connected directly to the processor in the OI. If you touch the wrong two pins together, you may damage the OI.
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That, and a dongle is a good safety mechanism to have handy. We've had more than a few "runaway bots" during autonomous testing, especially when someone disconnected the shaft encoders while adjusting wiring.
Heck, I'm tempted to make a "deadman's switch" dongle for some of our tests.