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Re: Need Electrical Guru, DB37 Cables

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik View Post
Programming language shouldn't have anything to do with it. If your I2C works in C++ with a round cable, it'll work with a flat cable.* Electrons don't care what programming language you're using, they're pretty egalitarian like that.

Similarly, if you can't get I2C to work with Java + round cable, a flat cable isn't going to fix things. It's almost certain to be a programming problem.


*Yes, yes, there are differences between the two, cross-talk and suchlike, but I don't think those effects are big enough to interfere with what we're doing. And anyways, that'd just mean a round cable wouldn't work in any language.
Ok, well when we replace our round cable with the flat one, not even touching the code, our accelerometers stop working. Maybe its a problem with our round one as StealthMentor said,but remember, this problem occured to other teams as well.