Recent content by marcos.placona

Hi guys, just thought I'd drop by and see if anyone would be interested in a LCD custom character creator I've been working on for the past two days. It's got nothing to do with electronics per se, but all to do with programming a picaxe :D I've for quite some time been creating my custom...

I was watching the gadget show tonight, and saw some familiar code and IDE being featured on a "Kung-Fu bot" they were using for a challenge. I've asked them (RoboChallenge), and turns out they really have.. Woo-hoo! Picaxe got featured (although not directly mentioned) on Channel 5 at the...

This is a ridiculously (cheap) priced board: http://www.futurlec.com/Mini_SC.shtml Has anyone here interfaced with it, and can confirm that it's "picaxeable"? Here's a photo of it:

I've written a blog post about how to go on doing the connection between the picaxe14m and 16x2 LCD (HD447080 standard), and decided to post it here as a finished project. I know it's not really a project, but might help people get their projects finished ;)...

I'm building myself a datalogger which will constantly display the current time and temperature on a 16x2 HD4780 LCD display. I'd be using a Picaxe 18x as a master, and a picaxe 14M which will be only responsible for displaying data on the LCD. it takes the readings serially. The circuit also...

This is just something a bit annoying I noticed on AxePad. If you have code like this: #rem sertxd(10) #endrem Quite rightly, the syntax colour will turn green, as you have some code inside comments. However, I've also noticed that when trying to use a variable (numeric) that starts with...

Hi, I've been working on my own implementation code of a data logger I've been building. It's pretty simple stuff, a Picaxe 18x, a DS18B20, DS1307 and 1x eeprom (24LC512) to store the information gathered every 5 minutes or so. So far, I've made it very modular, and built all of its parts in...

I've been reading for two days about the 24LC512 usage, but so far have not got too far. I can successfully read/write from/to it after some little struggle. :) I've read loads of topics in this forum, as well as the datasheet, but can't really make my mind up on how these things work. I...

Ok, I kow this will probably be something silly, but i can't for the life of me figure out what's doing on with this. I'm trying to write some data to a 24LC512. I've read the manuals, and also the AXE110 samples. My code is pretty simple: SYMBOL E_Address = b0 SYMBOL E_Data = b1 SYMBOL...

Hi, I was wondering if the infrain function on the picaxe is still only capable of working with sircs (Sony IR) codes, or if it can be extended to other codes. I wanted to create some kind o code repeater, so it would receive IR signals from my Samsung TV, store in an eeprom and repeat (i.e...

Hi, trying to get this to work on my linux box. I've connected it directly to the COM ports of my desktop (via AXE026), and keep getting: PICAXE-08M Enhanced Compiler. Version 1.2 Copyright (c) 1996-2010 Revolution Education Ltd All rights reserved. www.picaxe.co.uk Compiled successfully...

Hi, I've been playing around with a 08M's eeprom, and although everything works on my sample code, I've been trying to insert data into my eeprom dynamically (i.e. the picaxe reads from an infra red source and stores some data) I read from the documentation that by simply using eeprom...

Hi, this is just a followup to my previous thread on serin. I was indeed missing the N in front of the 2400 :p I'm now stuck on something else, and was hoping someone here could be able to help. I have this program that expects a number coming from the serial port. As far as I understood, I...

So I've created this very basic C# application that simply sends data to a Picaxe 08m and activate some outputs according to what's received I've been a long time outside of the "Picaxe Land" due to a number of factors, and am trying to catch up again. What my Picaxe code is does is: Do...

Ok Guys, I've been thinking big over the last couple of days. In fact I was thinking about building a digital photo frame using one of this big lcd displays in the market. The one I came across was this one: Which is a Sony PSP display with back-light integrated. The datasheet for it is...