So far as I know, upgrading to 4.5.2 was a bad idea. You had to have had ndless for any of this, and ndless doesn't work on 4.5.2.
I looked at the Reddit thread and they asked a question that you never followed up on: do you have a serial device, like an Arduino ? Maybe you can use that (I have no idea how).
Note: I know very little about any of this. Critor on tiplanet is far more knowledgeable (I think Critor modified my nspires, actually). All I do know is that once people were on 4.5.2, they were fricked.