Wow, I am really surprised to see how common a problem this is. When we come to IRI in July 2008, we will definitely be prepared, either with protecting all the un-used terminals or some type of cover, or even seal the un-used pins with hot glue.
We came prepared with a good autonomous mode out of the crate, but this incident changed everything. It changed alot for us and we learned in a good way.
Check out our programmers auto mode couple of days before ship:
Low
http://www.huntingtonrobotics.org/vi...-1501-auto.wmv
High
http://www.huntingtonrobotics.org/vi...-1501-auto.mpg
Wished we could have showed it off at Boilermaker.