I finally received the package after the carrier redirected it up here. I’m happy to finally have my stuff but I had a problem. So one of the drawbacks to SparkFun’s website is when you put stuff in your shopping cart they… don’t always stay there. As a result I added and added and added the jumper cables I needed time after time and apparently on the umpteenth time adding it to my cart due to indecisiveness about the other components I ended up adding the Male to Female cables. I needed Female to Female. I didn’t double check F/F on the jumpers after it was in my cart and now I have 100 female to male cables.
I ended up using some jumpers off old circuit boards and hard drives to link the two cables together on the male end to hook one of the sensors up with the female ends. I’m having difficulty getting the information off the first sensor to appear on the LCD due to the way it converts the text for display… I need to rethink this a little more and spend some time experimenting on it but I THINK it’s working getting the data. I could be wrong but some of the logic tests seem to show it getting data. I’ve just been rather tired the past few days and havent been able to fully think about it in between working and other things so I hope to do so this weekend.
I ordered several other sensor boards from SparkFun and a few other parts that can be used in the project at some point in addition to the RIGHT jumper cables so I don’t have to connect 2 of them together. In addition I can probably use these jumpers for something else later as a sort of extension cable or something.
THIS time SparkFun shipped my package on the same business day they got the order. I bumped it to Overnight shipping because I want to be sure I had it this weekend. It shows it having been picked up in Boulder and due for arrival by 3 tomorrow. I won’t be here so as long as I don’t need to sign for it it’ll be here when I come home. Guess it’ll be 1 day this time rather than 6 business days or something.