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1/16/11 - Finally, the materials have arrived. It was a dream come true for us that finally after so many mishaps that happened, we got our hands on these precious little things.
I've submitted the order to Sparkfun.com and a shipping confirmation has been sent from Sparkfun last 1/3/11. We are expecting that it will arrive after 3 days. But 4 days had passed and no news about our package. Tracking the order, we discovered that it arrived here in the Philippines on 1/06/11. But for some clearance issues, it has been delayed and after 5 days of being delayed, we decided to call FedEx to verify. We have been told that we are going to pay an additional PHP5,000 for the taxes before we can receive our package which is almost 50% of the amount ($276). It was our 2nd time to do online shipping and we did not know about this whole tax thing! It was insane! But because we are so delayed in our project, we have no choice but to pay them the amount to finally get our package. Today, we have our materials with us, and it was 10 days after it has arrived here in the Philippines. It was really unfair on our part, because we are only students and we need these things for our Senior Project but we were not informed and a big damage has been done to us.
But, we can't really do anything but move on and proceed with the project implementation.
More snapshots: Look how small these things are!
Unfortunately, we couldn't test these things yet because there is one material missing which I've overlooked, the 6 and 8 pin stackable headers for the Arduino and XBee Shield. I thought it was included in the shield (FAIL!). On the brighter side, I've just finished making the layout of the sensor circuit and we will start building the circuit tomorrow.
- Sensor circuit (practicalarduino.com)
- Sensor (MPX2050DP)
1/16/11 - Finally, the materials have arrived. It was a dream come true for us that finally after so many mishaps that happened, we got our hands on these precious little things.
I've submitted the order to Sparkfun.com and a shipping confirmation has been sent from Sparkfun last 1/3/11. We are expecting that it will arrive after 3 days. But 4 days had passed and no news about our package. Tracking the order, we discovered that it arrived here in the Philippines on 1/06/11. But for some clearance issues, it has been delayed and after 5 days of being delayed, we decided to call FedEx to verify. We have been told that we are going to pay an additional PHP5,000 for the taxes before we can receive our package which is almost 50% of the amount ($276). It was our 2nd time to do online shipping and we did not know about this whole tax thing! It was insane! But because we are so delayed in our project, we have no choice but to pay them the amount to finally get our package. Today, we have our materials with us, and it was 10 days after it has arrived here in the Philippines. It was really unfair on our part, because we are only students and we need these things for our Senior Project but we were not informed and a big damage has been done to us.
But, we can't really do anything but move on and proceed with the project implementation.
More snapshots: Look how small these things are!
Unfortunately, we couldn't test these things yet because there is one material missing which I've overlooked, the 6 and 8 pin stackable headers for the Arduino and XBee Shield. I thought it was included in the shield (FAIL!). On the brighter side, I've just finished making the layout of the sensor circuit and we will start building the circuit tomorrow.
- Sensor circuit (practicalarduino.com)
- Sensor (MPX2050DP)
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