Contention between Type I and T sockets in SD

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I am new to this game and my Spider kit has not even been delivered. In preparation I installed the software and completed the camera application. That went OK.
I fancy connecting a gyro later and so I drooped the Seeed into my project. Using right click to connect up I got the error: -

“The Gadgeteer Designer was not able to connect the optional sockets”

Instead it disconnected socket 10 connected to the T socket on the display and connected the gyro to socket 10 instead on the main board. The Gyro requires a type I socket and to try and resolve matters I moved it to the vacant socket 1 on the main board freeing up socket 10 for the T from the display but it still won’t accept the connection.

I found it very difficult to find relevant documentation on the intermix of sockets but by studying the schematic I noticed that pins 8 & 9 are buses together between sockets 1 3 4 & 10. OK for a type T socket pins 8 & 9 are [UN] so I can’t see that there is a real problem only the … software won’t let me do it. I am too far down the learning curve to know where to look to fix - help!

PS is there a hardware manual for the FEZ Spider? The picture showing the socket mentions a user guide to check out the type Z

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All you had to do is come here and ask :slight_smile: Here you go Home - GHI Electronics

No because we want this to be so easy that there is no need of a user manual! We hope at least. Plus you have many users here that would love to help out.

Welcome to the community and we look forward to seeing your inventions.

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We discovered a bug with the display driver, which reserved all the I2C pins, which are shared with the other I2C sockets. Thank you for discovering this, and it will be fixed shortly.

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Reviving an old thread, but seems relevant and newest thread I could find on the subject. :slight_smile:

What about the Z socket? The diagram on http://www.ghielectronics.com/catalog/product/297 says “Check User Guide” for Z socket. The socket list you mentioned was very helpful, but for socket Z says to look at manufacture documentation. So kinda catch 22. :smiley:

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This is in the schematics. Typical needs do not use Z sockets and modules should never be Z.

Welcome to the community.

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@ Hoss - Also note than the pinout of a Z socket will vary from board to board. It is usually JTAG or other diagnostic/programming lines…