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Old 09-03-2010, 05:27 AM
Michael J. Mahon
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Default Re: Got myself a Tiger Learning Computer today

schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On Sep 2, 1:48 pm, BLuRry <brendan.rob...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Volt meter? :-) You can see the voltage reading bounce around on
> > the
>> RX pin when there's data coming over. If anything, it's the best
>> thing to check that you're not going to blow a serial port elsewhere.

>
> One time, I had a guy tell me he just stuck his tongue against the
> pins to feel for it... I figure I'll use a slightly more sanitary
> method.


This year at KFest I used my tongue on a Nadanet cable (~4v peak,
pulsed) to verify that data was being sent. ;-)

-michael - NadaNet 3.1: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon
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