Use Chrome Picaxe Programmer to safely distribute proprietary Picaxe code?

wapo54001

Senior Member
The recent thread "Chrome Picaxe Programmer" discusses a branch of the Picaxe software that I wasn't aware existed. Can this method be used to create and securely distribute compiled Picaxe firmware code?

It sounds like an end user could update firmware conveniently with a copy of chrome and the programming cable. Is that the case? How secure is the code when distributed this way -- assuming it's possible?
 

hippy

Technical Support
Staff member
PICAXE Binary files (*.axe) are mainly used to overcome technical and security issues in what Apps allow but they do allow PICAXE programs to be shared without having to share the source code.

The files could potentially be reverse engineered to approximate what the source code was but that would require a good degree of knowledge, a lot of time and effort to achieve that. They would almost certainly be secure enough for distributing code for most things which include a PICAXE.

PICAXE Binary files can be generated using PE6; use File -> Export -> PICAXE Binary.
 
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