First, I'll start with the pictures. I did want a lot of pictures on the site. However, I recently figured out why my camera sucked some major balls for the past year, the lens is cracked. Why I didn't notice this before is beyond me, I'm betting it was because I was drunk or in the process of becoming drunk. I'm also betting that being drunk or one of my drunk friends directly or indirectly dropped/threw/punted/dropped something on/evil eyed the camera.

So more or less, only pics that will arrive will either be by a borrowed camera (lets see if I can 'borrow' one of my brother's) or by my camera phone ... and still by my crappy canon s200.
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But now on to the parts update ... and a picture here will be way more helpful.

On emailing to grant, he said to get some headers from Jameco. I bought 100 when I should have actually gotten about 60 more. Why you ask? Well, here is the cool thing about the headers ... they act like legos.

1 header = 10 pins ... break it in 2 and you get 2 5 pin headers.

Still with me? And since we all learned legos connect firmly with one another, you can connect the headers together nicely.

Now why is this a good thing. Well, since I am a computer person, enjoys having things being able to be quickly disconnected and object oriented. You can solder one 5 pin set directly on the board (male side to PCB) then on the other pin set; solder the ribbon cord to the female side of the 5 pin header. Then, BAM, connect the two headers together to make some sweet header loving.

Damn I wish I had actually understood what Grant was talking about before I ordered.

I may want to actually do the same thing at the end of the ribbon cables and create a wire system for power / switch / LED for easy removal. I do have to order more anyways.