Hi guys!
Thanks so much for the help so far!
Sorry about the cross-posting, I just was really desperate for help and had no idea about how quick responses would be/if any of the posts would even be noticed/which category my problem was most relevant to (cross-posting is posting the same topic in multiple threads, right? I might be speaking about something else entirely otherwise).
And Lefty, I do intend to begin my study of basic Computer Science and writing Arduino sketches as soon as I can, but I am just so swamped with work at the moment that I cannot possibly try to learn/experiment until at least next semester. I need the data for this experiment as soon as I can possibly collect it, and if I were to try and write this myself, I'd have absolutely no idea where to even begin. The coding of my 'bot is really only for the purpose of getting everything up and running; right now I am most concerned with the actual application/comparison of the sensors. I was just hoping that I could find a temporary sketch (like the already existing PING one) that would help me test run my project before making one myself.
And the sketch for PING that I speak of is just the basic example sketch that's included with the Arduino software.