Recent content by joely87

Hi All, I am looking at developing a moisture meter. I assumed a simple potential divider would work but having some issues with unstable ADC. For a start I would like to just develop a reliable probe and then one it is stable I will be begin looking at solutions for electrolysis. I have made a...

Hi WestAust55, Forgive me if I have missed it in this very long thread but I was wondering if i am able to add custom breadboards to the Pebble Library? I am working on some tutorial videos using a 17 x 10 breadboard from seeed studio and would like to put some pebble images together to help...

Hi All, I am currently teaching PICAXE in Adelaide, South Australia but since updating the programming editor and re imaging the computer the student all recieve a "serial port error - port not present or already in use" when they try to program the device. The only other software that was...

Hi All, I am trying to use the time variable on the 18M2. In a particular part of my program I am Sending the days, hours, minutes, seconds to a serial LCD. I am running the chip at 8MHz to make it serial LCD friendly however it seems to be halving the time. i.e when my LCD displays 0D:0H:8M:0S...

Hi All, I am wanting to create a touch game as a student project. I would like the students to come up with a range of games using different code in the 08M picaxe chip. One idea that I am trying to prototype is measuring how far along the wire they get before they touch the maze. My idea is...

This is just a short tread. I attempted last night to try and generate a PPM (pulse position modulation) with a picaxe 18M2 chip. without a scope and some more testing equipment it will be difficult to get more accuracy. This is only the early stages of the code : ' Picaxe to PPM testing. '...

These three posts have been moved into this new thread from big JME's thread radio control system http://www.picaxeforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=14221&page=14 --------------------------------------- G'day big JME, This is a rather long post and i notice your last post was about 10 months ago...

Hello all, With the release of the Picaxe 18M2 at a ridiculously low price ($6 in Aus) I was tempted to update my skill in picaxe ready to start teaching design and technology next year. I have played around with LCD and in the past mostly using the sparkfun serial enabled backpack as it h...