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    synthetic switches

    Hello, I am trying to control a digital camera with a picaxe. I have two pins coming out from the digital camera, one has 3.30V, and the other is 0.04V, and when you touch them together for a fraction of a second, it takes a photo. I am wanting to use the picaxe, to somehow activate the camera...
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    picaxe power supply

    I'm trying to put a picaxe on my rc airplane for some led's, and i understand that they are very tempermental to voltage, and can easily be damaged. The rc plane setup is the 7.4V battery is connected to the motors speed controller. This speed contoller has a BEC circuit on it that delivers 5V...
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    trig functions on picaxe?

    I want to use either sin, cos or tan in a calculation I am trying to do on the picaxe. Basically i need to find the angle between the two sides of a triangle. My first thought was that there is no way to do that, but is this true? Is there some complicated was to perform a calculation like...
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    exturnal eeprom storing words

    I found some code on an old post here about storing bytes (b0,b1,b2...) to an exturnal eeprom IC. I was wondering if the eeprom could be easily used to store words instead (w0,w1,w2....)? Also, the code was written for a specific eeprom chip, would the same exact code be able to be used on...
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    multiple servo control

    Hi, can I control 2 independant servos continuosly and simultaneously on any picaxe chip? If yes, which ones? Or would i be better off getting two dedicated 08-M's (one for each) to control them? Thanks.
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    ports?

    Ok, I got the program installed now, 4.2.2 or something version. I got the Picaxe 08 installed, battery ok its working on the demo program and plugged into the computer correctly. But it won't connect to either Com1 or Com2 port, and doesn't let me select the type of pic axe. What do I do?
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    programmer problems with installing

    ok, yea, i was pausing the download the first two times, and so I tried it straight off, and it worked up to the fiile having a setup icon. But when i try to install, it says "error reading initialization file". What does this mean? I downloaded the updated installer and that did not...
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    programmer downloading

    I downloaded the programmer from rev-ed.co.uk, and it said it was corrupted on my computer and that it was invalid file format or something, i checked, it was .exe So I downloaded it again, and the exact same thing happened. What do I do?
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