Hi Everyone,
Here's where I'm at - Soon my wife will be ordering my parts from tech supplies (Christmas pressie!) for me to play around and make my first robot. I'm basing it on the LMR Starter kit. The only differences are the motors and the position sensor. I'll be using the SRF005 sensor.
Here are my main components :
L293D motor driver
DIL 330 x 8 resistor array
9g Minature Servo
Ultrasonic Range Sensor
Red LED
PICAXE-28X1 Starter Pack (USB)
2 x Motors
A few led's
Various pins and connectors etc....
I may have to wait a few weeks before I actually have the parts, but even if I do get them quicker I don't want to just jump straight in and start connecting things without an understanding of what I am doing. I have downloaded the programme editor and have read through hundreds of posts about code and general questions and watched lots of videos about PICaxe robots.
I'd love to read through all of the manuals, but there are hundreds of pages and a lot of it wont make sense until I have something to actually play with. My question is, What would the more experienced people be reading up on or making notes on if they were in my position again (as you were once ).
I was thinking of printing out the "pin-outs" of the chips for easy reference and making notes of all of the more common commands (which ones??). Is there anything I can practice with the editor without being able to download to a chip and testing it?
Any general thoughts or pointers would be gratefully received.
Thanks
Paul
Here's where I'm at - Soon my wife will be ordering my parts from tech supplies (Christmas pressie!) for me to play around and make my first robot. I'm basing it on the LMR Starter kit. The only differences are the motors and the position sensor. I'll be using the SRF005 sensor.
Here are my main components :
L293D motor driver
DIL 330 x 8 resistor array
9g Minature Servo
Ultrasonic Range Sensor
Red LED
PICAXE-28X1 Starter Pack (USB)
2 x Motors
A few led's
Various pins and connectors etc....
I may have to wait a few weeks before I actually have the parts, but even if I do get them quicker I don't want to just jump straight in and start connecting things without an understanding of what I am doing. I have downloaded the programme editor and have read through hundreds of posts about code and general questions and watched lots of videos about PICaxe robots.
I'd love to read through all of the manuals, but there are hundreds of pages and a lot of it wont make sense until I have something to actually play with. My question is, What would the more experienced people be reading up on or making notes on if they were in my position again (as you were once ).
I was thinking of printing out the "pin-outs" of the chips for easy reference and making notes of all of the more common commands (which ones??). Is there anything I can practice with the editor without being able to download to a chip and testing it?
Any general thoughts or pointers would be gratefully received.
Thanks
Paul