OK. Life is too short and I have had a bad week.
Picaxe chips will be on Ebay tomorrow for anyone interested.
Axe027 lead binned and the Axe091 programming board hit the wall at 45mph.
Back to a far less frustrating Teensy
AAAHHHHHHHHH I HATE THIS EDITOR
It's the most unintuitive flawed bit of software ever. I HAVE COM 7 SELECTED, SO STOP TELLING YOU CAN'T OPEN COM PORT 6
Picaxe = Bin
Why, when it finds and lists com port 6 in the top left settings window (or in fact, find whatever USB port I am trying), does it then report a totally different com port as 'unable to open' when I try to upload?
Why isn't it using the com port I have chosen (and there is only one) in the...
Thanks... I do have it working, but now the editor has failed again :mad:
I remember now why I abandoned my last Picaxe project. The Editor v6.1.0.0 suddenly decides it can't find any com ports.
Tested the 027 lead - that seems fine.
Refresh com ports in the editor and it instantly finds the...
Thanks. They are indeed.... in the bin. I have to start being ruthless with this rubbish I have collected over the years.
I have loads of displays, and you can buy them madly cheap now... so why spend all day getting difficult ones to work
I did that. but never found that thread (I have about 25 windows open here).
With 7e as the address, the screen flashes then goes off. So it does appear to respond, but turns off the backlight somehow.
I am over them now. Don't really want to spend all evening working out the backlight...
The Picaxe I2C scanner you linked to AllyCat confirms its address 7e, so I have no idea why it doesn't respond.
I have 3 of these displays that were new and unopened. All three do not respond.
Eh?
Not using parallel mode. Binned that (I did say that in the original post) . Now trying some I2C LCD's.
All they have written on them is LCM1602. The address is not changeable (Googling that part shows variations with changeable addresses).
Have yet to find a datasheet. I have had these...
Hello all
I have not tinkered with my Picaxe ICs for quite a while, so last night I thought I would break out the Axe091 and connect up an LCD to a Picaxe.
Yea... this box of Picaxe chips are dangerously near going in the bin
Started with a Parallel LCD that I know worked, but after an...