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Hello, With a number of new Qualcomm ARM chips on its way, it seems that Windows(11) on ARM will get more mainstream (and I will likely be an interested user). Therefore this question: will PICAXE Editor run on this type of hardware? Thanks! /Jurjen https://www.kranenborg.org/maker

Hi All, In case some of you are still wanting to use your Womai's original DPscope version (possibly not the DPScope II, nor the PCB-Scope / DPscope SE versions as sold via the Picaxe store as their accompanying software likely is different) - like I do - and you wish to use it on Windows 11...

Dear Picaxe Colleagues, At some instances I have indicated that I still use my childhood's Philips EE (Electronic Engineer) set of kits (https://ee.old.no/) to prototype most of my projects, including the Picaxe-based ones. I know now that these kits have been very popular in Great Britain as...

Is this a robot? Yes, I still think so, as it models its biological counterpart (it can chirp) ... The Picaxe Cicada idea and a large part of the implementation is not mine but developed by Andrew Hornblow and was introduced no later than 2008 as I built it according to his model. This is how...

Dear forum members After some experimentation it seems to me that I cannot obtain the count accuracy as I should get according to the spec of the COUNT command. According to this spec, for a 64MHz 28X2 (with a very accurate crystal, see my recent Accurate Frequency Counter project) the...

Dear Picaxe enthousiasts, Since I am in need of a frequency counter for an analog electronics project I googled around and quickly ran into a nice PICAXE implementation (0 - 65MHz) that seemed to satisfy my requirements very well. Its design was published in 2006 (!) by Jeremy Leach, who has...

Dear forum members, Often one needs a pre-defined range of frequencies to be generated, the values steered by a potentiometer or similar sensor. The following simple code for a 08M2 provides for a range of frequencies (with fixed 50% duty cycle), using the M2's PWM module. In the attached...

Hello, In my editor I am running into an issue that I have not met before. The following code line BINTOASCII b1, @bptrinc, @bptrinc, @bptr is rejected by my editor (version 6.0.9.3) but I have used it successfully in a program in 2011, very likely using an older editor version. The syntax...

Hello, Some of you may remember my SerialPower network software that I developed for the older M/X Picaxe chips variants. I delivered a fully functional SerialPower 1 version (V3.0) for those older chips that is documented in detail in the following thread, located in the Finished User Picaxe...

The Picaxe and the Raspberry Pi are two quite different beasts but they appear to team up rather well. In particular the straightforward implementation of the I2C protocol by the Picaxe X2 variants (using the scratchpad RAM) makes the X2 chip a very useful companion as an I2C slave to the RasPi...

Hello, Just a sort notice that I updated my single-paper quick reference programming sheet from the older 08M chip to the current 08M2 chip, as can be found in the following entry in the code snippets section of this forum: http://www.picaxeforum.co.uk/showthread.php?20337 I hope that this...

Dear Forum members, I have been away for a while due to work responsibilities but discovered (of course) that putting at least some small but focused effort on a hobby keeps the mind healthy. From the options to choose to spend my attention to, the Picaxe came afloat quickly ... I have updated...

processing events using interrupts in a fixed time interval ("uninterruptible PAUSE") Hello, Sometimes you wish to record and process (possibly fast) asynchronous events using interrupts in a predefined time interval (doing more than just counting them, for which the Count command...

M2 chips: Can Serial Out pin be overridden to become a DAC Vref- input? Hello, The M2 series has a large number of very useful modules (comparators, Data Signal Modulator, etc.) which, although not directly supported by Basic commands like on the X2 series (I presume because the M2 series have...

Hello, Here is a small change suggestion regarding the mounting of the IR receiver extension to the MicroBot (BOT120), which may make the use of IR remote control of this bot much more flexible. By changing the mounting position from the rear right position on Port C.0 (as recommended in the...

Hello, Not so much of a code snippet, more of a "documentation snippet". Here is a single-paper (double-sided) overview of the main programming concepts (symbols, registers, most important commands (with examples), picaxe pinout and troubleshooting) for a Picaxe-08M2. It may for example serve...

Hello, When I searched the web shop for the schools experimenter board (AX092) I was not able to find it directly under the expected categories and I got the impression that it had vanished alltogether. After a while I remembered the product code again and then was able to locate it. Does this...

The two code snippets given here (for a master and a slave picaxe, connected to each other via a 1K or larger resistor) cause the slave node internal resonator frequency to get aligned with the master node. This is done in a loop in which the master node sends a number of pulses (using PULSOUT)...

Hello, When one performs a syntax check on a Picaxe program, the Programming Editor (PE) gives a very useful list of used resources at the right-side of the window (Variables, Constants & Labels). With very large programs - in which it becomes inevitable to use a register several times for...

Here I present a proposed design of the successor of the PongSat-18X NLSE-1 near-space satellite ( http://www.picaxeforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=9236 ). It appears that we will get a ticket by JPAerospace for a planned flight over a thunderstorm (date yet unknown, the flight will be somewhat...