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Originally Posted by EricVanWyk
Let me know if you need help with this. I did turn an early prototype of the PD into a static sensor - the blown breaker LEDs would glow when something statically charged approached the robot. If only I could do this on purpose...
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Heh. A couple of years ago, I was working on board bring-up and the bootloader for a brand new PowerPC control board that we were developing for our 2-way radio networks. Things were good except for a mysterious reset that occurred randomly that I couldn't track down for about a week. I'd leave the board up and running all night and it would be fine, but as soon as I got to work the next morning it would reset within a half hour or so. After a while of trying to figure out if there was some funky network traffic at 8am or something, I happened to notice the reset LED sequence after standing up from my chair. Sure enough, with the board sitting about 3 feet away from me I could reliably reset it by simply standing up out of my chair. The static buildup from the fabric chair was enough to do it, and the reset was occurring when I stood up to go get a cup of coffee each day. That was definitely an interesting bug.