Recent content by waltsar

Hi Buzby and others, It's Alive!!! - Gentlemen, thank you all so much for all your help! Buzby was right- the problem turned out to be a faulty solder joint on the socket. It was not connecting the Serial In signal to the board. A quick dab of solder and the system now works. I downloaded the...

Hi Hippy, Still not able to download the program to the 14M2 board/chip. Here is the sequence I followed: In PE6 Editor/Workspace Explorer, the following are listed: Picaxe Type = Picaxe - 14-M2 Comport = Com5 Axe027 Picaxe USB Simulation = Picaxe 14-M2 I pressed F8 and Serial...

Gentlemen, Thank you all for your help. I've tried all the suggestions you've made and unfortunately, I still have the same problem. To answer a few of your questions ... I have the 14M2 starter kit and it comes with the Axe027 cable. I've checked all the connections again (point-to-point)...

Hi Hippy, Thanks for the reply! I tried the hard reset multiple times with varying time intervals of reapplying power with no success. One comment - in the manual, it states that when doing a hard reset, power should be reapplied just after the download status bar appears on the screen - that...

I'm just getting started using Pixaxe and have already run into a problem. I'm using a 14m2 starter board Axe117. I'm trying to download a simple 5-line program to flash an LED. The problem: when I try to download this program to the board, I get a message "Error: no hardware found on com5!"...

Thanks to all who replied, much appreciated!

I'm completely new to Picaxe. Way back when ... I programmed in Basic, C, and PLC logic - that should give you a clue of how old I am. Right now I have a general question about what Picaxe can do. I have a small starter kit with a 14M2 processor chip with "Revolution" and "AXE117" printed on...