I know Joseph Mallozzi used to post cool things like this to reddit/r/Stargate

I always love these behind the scenes pictures :-)

Maybe since they had to interface with the Atlantis computer to disable the force field… They were more like a traditional garage door opener which just sends an RF signal.

Lol, this one is great

Not always, it really depends on what the person who did the board layout or wrote the firmware thought. When I do a board/firmware I label it from the devices perspective, so the TX is where the bits I’m transmitting will be coming out of, RX is where I’m expecting your bits to be sent to. Others label it from the perspective of the device connecting to it. So TX is where you connect the line your sending bits from. To me that’s wierd because, to others it’s what they expect. There is no standard and the result is you end up hooking it to an oscilloscope and see which line bits are being sent from. Then you use the scope to figure out all the settings. If they don’t transmit in power up then… Frustration ensures

Don’t forget trying to guess if the RX label is the line they transmit out of or you transmit to.