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by buildbot 992 days ago
Tangent- I had a similar problem in my undergrad EE capstone class where our serial connection to our microcontroller kept being filled with random garbage. I moved my laptop at one point - and it stopped! The charging cable had been lying across the wires for the serial bus, and apple chargers talk to their laptops over a serial protocol as it turned out. We were picking up crosstalk!