Recent content by Nativecorn

OR... instead of sockets and making up a cable I could just use some wires and heat shrink tubing over the appropriate serial connection pins. I don't have a heat gun so a creme brulee torch will do without too too much charring of my computer! (I watched a lot of MacGyver as a kid.) Success...

You must have been reading my mind! I hooked up a breadboard with the minimum circuit (and a new 08M2, I bought 12). The circuit looks like a bit of a monster but it says 'Hello' in the terminal. However I still cannot check the firmware or download a program on my WinVista machine. And the...

Okay, I bridged the solder between the two pairs on the 3.5mm socket as suggested. I also went over all my solder points with my soldering gun and made sure they were secure and not connected mistakenly to any nearby points. And to eliminate WinVista as the culprit I dragged an old PC out of...

Hi, Just getting started with the Picaxe and am getting a 'Hardware not found' error. I'm using a AXE027 USB cable. I installed the driver and the Programming Editor shows it as 'Ready to Use' on the Serial Port tab. I'm on a PC running 64 bit Vista Service Pack 2. When using Programming...