I bring to you the first of these posts where I received the package and posted the fest ON THE SAME DAY!

The UPS guy got a little sneaky, hiding it back there instead of leaving it on the mat. I mentioned that my driveway is quite steep; steep enough to deter even delivery drivers. Last Christmas season one driver made it up my driveway, but decided against climbing the stairs on top of that, so I found a box under the steps. It was actually NOT the Postal Service...I think it was FedEx.

All these small bubble wrapped kraft packages! What is it this time?!

What all that shiny crap means to say is I bought an offbrand Arduino Mega2560. I was running out of I/O ports on my Uno due to the numerous inputs my keypad and LCD require. That bag was actually very well wrapped around the microcontroller, with tape, no less.

Not pictured is the anti-static bag from which I removed the Arduino.
I was lazy and didn't take a comparison picture of the Uno, but lets just say that the Mega has 54 I/O ports where the Uno has 19. And other stuff, but for now I/Os are what I need.
It also came with this (actually handy) 1ft USB b cable. I can use it on the go with my laptop without the bulk of a 6ft cable. It seems trite, but excess cable is annoying.
You might be noticing a theme across all the items I have fested so far and that's because I started this thread just a little too late to show off the more varied things I got before this. Oh well, as long as someone shows an interest in this thread there will be time to see more junk...even if that person is me.
BONUS TIMEI promised show the LCD off once I had some code written, and here's the delivery!
I went with the video because a series of pictures just didn't cut it. It's difficult to tell, but the temperature sensor is next to the keyboard, under the orange/yellow wires. All of the wires look messy, but I promise they're organized and color coded. I also cleaned up the solder on the LCD so it would actually function.

I've had a YouTube account for over a decade...I'm such a lurker.