Hi Wayne,
Thanks for getting back to me.
It's definitely not something I intended to test, but given this is a device to teach kids I guess it's something which can easily happen
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With my second post I intended to say it seems to be working again. Here is the detail of what happened:
* My kids plugged in the connector upside down while I was fetching my laptop power supply. Could have been plugged in incorrectly about a minute. Nothing was uploaded during that time.
* When I noticed the connector had been plugged in incorrectly I disconnected it and connected it the right way
* Connecting it the right way caused the charging led to burn very, very faint.
* I tried pushing the power and user buttons, nothing happened
* At that point I disconnected it again... pressing the buttons still had no effect
* I noticed certain parts of the wink were hot and it smelled a bit burnt, something clearly overheated
* Trying again 5 minutes later it still did not react, it still felt hot so I guess it must have been really hot at the start
* 10 minutes later - after I found / read / registered / posted on the forum - I hit the power button once more and the last program started executing again.
In the mean time I can confirm that programming / eyes / motors work, which is a big relief, not sure if anything else got damaged.
Xaf