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    single resonator

    How would one wire up 3 picaxes to a single resonator/clock source? can this be done? is it possable to carry the 8mhz signal over a distance of about 3 feet? thank you for any help in advance...
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    Incremental rotary encoder blues

    Hello all. I'm having an interesting problem. I am trying to use a honeywell clarostat rotary 2 channel incremental (quadrature) encoder. its part number is 600-128-c24 i believe the encoder pins are as fallows: pin 1 power pin 2 channel a pin 3 channel b pin 4 ground im not sure if i have it...
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    Download Error

    Ok this is not a good thing. I have been trying to download the editor for 3 days and every time it fails... no i am not on a modem and its not dissconnects from the internet that causes the failure.... they allways get to about 15 meg and quits... no other website is giveing me this issue and...
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    software reset?

    Is there any way to conduct a software reset? Would tying the reset pin high via a 4k7 resister then to an i/o pin be okay. Then when a reset is wanted setting the i/o pin low work? I want to know before i do it if something like that could work so i don't accidentally fry my 28x.  
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    IC designations?

    Does anyone know where there is a list of all the picaxe/pic ic designations ie 28x = pic16f873a i am trying to find a list of all of them i have googled around and cant find many references. only the 08m and 28x parts  
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    bit banging help

    something is wrong with my logic... i think. b7 counts to 2 then halts no other variables appear to be set or modified. here is my code... 'ads1286p ti 12 bit spi adc ' 'cs normaly high. 'A falling CS initiates data transfer 'read in 13 bits 1 bit after each succesive '...
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    ds1624?

    I have tried 2 sensors of the type ds1624 with a 28x. neither work with the supplied by program from phanderson http://www.phanderson.com/picaxe/ds1624_28x.html my board uses the same pins and same resisters. i have tested my i2c setup against eeproms and it works fine. any ideas or help? i...
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    24lc1025

    could someone explain to me exactly how to use. what does 128*8 mean? if the device is 1024Kbit does that mean its 128Kbytes? what kind of addressing scheme is used on the device? its an i2c device but how does one look up values inside the eeprom  
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    barometric

    Hello again, i know my questions are all over the place. You see im not exactly a hardware EE guy, more of the programmer type. Anyways question i have a mpx2202 barometric pressure sensorand the output is tird directly to ADC0 on a 28x. My reading never changes. Its an analog sensor and I...
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    gosub vs goto

    Hello everyone. I noticed one may only use a limited number of gosubs and here is my question would it be just as efficient to use a goto in its place? I am verry new to picaxe's, only had mine for a week and its a great device but the limitations are frustrateing. sidebar: I took a C and...
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    sending notes

    im wondering if its possible to send a value over a serial line from a 28x to an 08m and use that value to play a note? something like (in psuedo code) (08m part) main: if pin1 = 1 gosub play-note1 if pin2 = 1 gosub play-note2 play-note1 tune 0, 15,($E0) return play-note2...
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    TC74 temp sensor

    the tc74 is an i2c device and maybe im just a moron but useing the i2c howto didnt help me very much and neither is the data sheat any help out there???  
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    need help with 2 ohm meter

    ok this might sound silly but, i need a method to test a resistance with 9 to 11 bit accuracy, i know 8 and 10 are done ok fine but here is the kicker that accuracy needs to fall between 0.5 ohms and 20 ohms. the standard voltage divider just isnt working...  
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