Recent content by artswan

I have a busy schedule, so I don't have the time to do it, but I always thought it would be helpful if some ambitious Picaxe fan could start a website that would be a Picaxe code repository where Picaxe newbies and experienced users alike could go. There are a lot of code snippets and full...

This is just for information for anyone having trouble with decimal math on Picaxe. I am sure this is already posted in some form on here already, but it's always helpful to us newbies. I was trying to multiply a variable w0 by 1.47. Tried the recommended ways such as w1 = w0 * 147/100 , etc...

So if the old 08M, etc. performed about 10,000 operations per second at 4 Mhz, then I can now assume that I can get 80,000 operations per second at 32 Mhz on the new M2 chips? Has anyone verified this?

Ok, I am curious. Which Microchip PIC microcontrollers are the new Picaxe 08M2, 14M2, and 20M2 based on? :)

Just a quick question. I am assuming that the Touch commands on the new 18M2 are also useful for other capacitive sensors such as capacitive humidity sensors, etc. Is that right?

Is it just me or is Picaxe Manual 3 starting to look a bit dated? There have been a lot of new breakout boards, sensors, gizmos, and gadgets that have come out in recent years. Maybe time to add some of these into the descriptions? Give some examples, etc? Of course, that's just my opinion. I...

So has anyone gone against the warnings, yet, and found out what happens when you touch a bare metal contact hooked up as a Touch sensor on the new 18M2?

I noticed the Picaxe-18M2 and family advertise 2-battery operation (1.8V min). But, I have used the Picaxe-08M and Picaxe-14M on 3 volts with satisfactory operation for quite some time as their PIC processors show operation down to 2 volts in the datasheets. Is this improper operation? Will it...

I was thinking of experimenting with an artificial neural network using Picaxe-08M or Picaxe-14M as each individual neuron "cell". I was going to start with a small network of 3 "cells" and instead of trying to use serial communications between the cells (serin wait problem) I am going to use...

As a microcontroller hobbyist, I enjoy working with both Picaxe and Picbasic Pro for PIC Microcontrollers. Picbasic Pro has been around a lot longer, but I notice a lot in common with the Picaxe commands. Did the developers of Picaxe intentionally develop Picaxe software to be so similar to...

The Picaxe-18M2 is suppose to be released this month. Has anyone heard anything on the progress? Is it on schedule? I am very excited to try it out! :) Has anyone heard anything about a Picaxe-08M2 being produced?

Has anyone done much experimenting with hooking up Picaxes in parallel, etc. to use in parallel or multi-core processing? I have started trying it today with three 08Ms and it seems like it might be a great way to speed things up and and get more done, especially in complicated robotics projects.

Picaxe equivalent of Arduino Map() function? Arduino has a Map() function that allows you to adjust adc input so that it reads the full scale, say 0 to 255 or 0 to 1023. As an example say you have a sensor that's output range is from 0.25V to 4.5V. Well, if inputted directly to say readadc10...

It has been advertised over the years that PICAXE is used in industry as well as education and by hobbyists. Does anyone have a list of companies that put PICAXE chips in their end products or know of companies that are actually using PICAXE in a role other than quick prototyping? Especially now...

"PICAXE is not recommended in safety critical systems.".... I have seen this warning posted many times for Picaxe. I understand it, but I am wondering a couple of things. What microcontroller would you recommend for safety critical systems? Why don't Arduino, Basic Stamp, BasicMicro, Athena...