I was trying to make a computer program to control a BigReactor turbine (I'll use a microcontroller after I figure this out). I know that the computer port acts as a component, so first of all, to increase the convenience of access of the computer port, I wrote
local turbine = component.proxy(component.get("5e7"))
That was the very first line of the program; 5e7 is the shortened address of the computer port. There is a bunch more code at the bottom that does the actual regulating, but when I run the program, it spits out this error message:
/home/turbine_control:1: attempt to index