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16-06-2017, 14:42

stan74 replied to a thread $12 Picaxe 20M2 Robot in User Projects - Robots

Looks good for £9.42. I think I get one.

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13-06-2017, 22:03

stan74 replied to a thread Anyone Used Nextion Displays? in Active PICAXE Forum

I bought a nextion and loaded the demo onto sim ok and it worked. That's as far as I got. I never got anywhere with the win dev and couldn't send...

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11-06-2017, 00:21

stan74 replied to a thread Picaxe 32 bitter in Active PICAXE Forum

I got a 12c? 8 pin pic on vero and a tv ir sensor and 2 ir led... a primitive range finder, I hated them pics...1 time programming error. Someone...

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10-06-2017, 20:31

stan74 replied to a thread Picaxe 32 bitter in Active PICAXE Forum

spot the picaxe. The 28 pin dip socket is underneath the (40 pin chip) table in the image. :) interesting link but don't need on board debugger et...

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10-06-2017, 20:02

stan74 replied to a thread Picaxe 32 bitter in Active PICAXE Forum

Obfuscated as posting images sometimes but 1 meg is kodak brownie. It's supposed to be vero with 28pin socket. The chips with more than 1k ram tend...

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10-06-2017, 17:16

stan74 replied to a thread Picaxe 32 bitter in Active PICAXE Forum

I could think of another version of what basic stands for...but not on countdown... basically arduous scientific incomprehensible convolution ...

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10-06-2017, 16:51

stan74 replied to a thread Picaxe 32 bitter in Active PICAXE Forum

you mean one of these? http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/processor-microcontroller-development-kits/1229825/ no socket for other pic? I bin nagged to...

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10-06-2017, 16:10

stan74 replied to a thread Picaxe 32 bitter in Active PICAXE Forum

Picaxe goes back several years and the same question has been asked and similar ones for years. Picaxe was designed to do a job and it does that...

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09-06-2017, 00:28

stan74 replied to a thread Picaxe 32 bitter in Active PICAXE Forum

I'm surprised this thread has gone on so long. I must have spent £lots of at rev ed 's shop. Not moaning. More fun than spent on beer :) It's fun not...

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08-06-2017, 00:39

stan74 replied to a thread Picaxe 32 bitter in Active PICAXE Forum

Last September I got into picaxe. I'd done pic asm 15 odd years earlier,made a robot and doing something else too much work. Made lots of robots...

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07-06-2017, 21:26

stan74 replied to a thread Picaxe 32 bitter in Active PICAXE Forum

The 28x2 is was my favourite. Under used. Did the MPU6060 thread get sorted. I sent one to a developer and a rpi touch screen and he wrote a lib for...

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07-06-2017, 17:55

stan74 replied to a thread Picaxe 32 bitter in Active PICAXE Forum

I know Tex. I reckon peeps want to do something and there's lot's of c (arduino but not necessarily) examples but no picaxe. I had that problem with...

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02-06-2017, 11:50

stan74 replied to a thread malfunction of programme in Active PICAXE Forum

main: high B.1 pause 2000 (to allow magnet to move away from reed switch when motor starts) goto add???? next line is add anyway add: let b0 =...

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01-06-2017, 01:15

stan74 replied to a thread Picaxe 32 bitter in Active PICAXE Forum

A rpi has a 64bit processor but everything is interpreted python. freebasic compiled code runs 100 times faster. Picaxe needs a real compiler and...

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01-06-2017, 00:22

stan74 replied to a thread stepper-control-with-acceleration in Active PICAXE Forum

Hippy said in a previous thread that you apply pulses and "they fly". I never figured them using cheap unipolar motor/gearboxes from ebay and the...

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27-05-2017, 22:26

stan74 replied to a thread stepper-control-with-acceleration in Active PICAXE Forum

I tried some ebay cheap steppers with this or some similar code ;28x2 A.0 to A3 are unipolar motor pins #picaxe 28x2 Symbol oYellowLED =...

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27-05-2017, 21:43

stan74 replied to a thread Is there any C Compiler (free or paid) for PICAXE ? in Active PICAXE Forum

To me that makes no sense. The syntax differences and changing say the picaxe servo command to a timer1 uno or pic interrupt is not trivial so not...

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27-05-2017, 20:59

stan74 replied to a thread Is there any C Compiler (free or paid) for PICAXE ? in Active PICAXE Forum

Goeytex "I agree that GCB may not be the best choice for rank beginners with zero knowledge of microcontrollers, or for those not willing to look at...

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27-05-2017, 20:17

stan74 replied to a thread Is there any C Compiler (free or paid) for PICAXE ? in Active PICAXE Forum

You said it all tmfkam. Picaxe is fine for most things but lots of repeated calculations like calculating a plot position on a line for graphics or...

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26-05-2017, 19:16

stan74 replied to a thread Is there any C Compiler (free or paid) for PICAXE ? in Active PICAXE Forum

Why would anyone convert Basic into "C"?........ speed?

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26-05-2017, 18:52

stan74 replied to a thread Is there any C Compiler (free or paid) for PICAXE ? in Active PICAXE Forum

Great Cow Basic compiles pic and avr to hex which is faster than arduino c,...

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