Then if you believe all claims about the new accelerator they have built in France, a certain little outback town in good ol' WA might just become a small black hole. I could end up living on the edge of a black holeOh gosh Dippy, that is a bit of a technical question. And so, probably something for ”Technical” to figure out which chip best fits the purpose and most importantly, their business model. Wouldn’t want to R&D a PICAXE chip that no one wants except, “Hammy”.
... here in the Northern West of Australia, it will soon become unbearably hot and humid and I will eventually drink all the newly found Bourbon particles and company profits!
Just think Dippy, if this whole DIY backyard particle accelerator works, I’ll be the talk of my little outback town! Just imagine the back yard parties I could have! An unlimited supply of Bourb-on’s! Or maybe, the whole thing may just crash and burn before it really gets started.
“Hammy”
........that’s right! You won't be on the edge for too long, we'll all become long strands of Spaghetti as we enter the singularity! Even the “normally immune to everything, I can do no wrong” lap dog is not immune to this rare event!.......you wouldn't be on the edge for too long!
PWM 1, PWM 2, PWM 3. Three independent PWM outputs.
Mind you lose out on other featuresThe High-Performance 8 Bit PIC18F1230/1330 devices provide three 14-bit PWM channels for high resolution control. The CPU of the PIC18F device family devices has additional math resources and operates at a higher speed to allow faster execution of control loops.
I second this.4. An 8-bit DAC or two
Yeap -just what I was gonna say. Lets not add delay to the X2 parts by giving them new idea'sWhile this thread started as an X2 wishlist, Rev Ed have already declared the intended PIC to be used for the 28/40 X2 parts.
While the idea of the wish list is great, it should be giving Rev Ed some guidance as to what teh consumers want, it is in all reality likely to be taken on board for the next generation as X3 (?) parts.
Not entirely but its success I would venture is largely due to the hardware it does use.Is picaxe truly hardware dependent?
"Awesome combination" is right. PICAXE code driving a TV is amazing and communicating with a PC via USB serial makes it doubly so. VGA should be possible but does use a lot of memory.I wonder about taking the incredible hardware power of the Propellor chip, and combining it with the amazing simplicity of picaxe code. That would be an awesome combination. Propellor can drive VGA monitors directly - imagine driving a VGA monitor with a single picaxe command...
I think the real success of PICAXE has been delivering what is possible elsewhere but in a "very easy to use by novices" format. Rev-Ed put in the hard work, save everyone from repeating that exercise and in return people hand their piggy banks overIf you (and I'm not pointing at hippy) want to do some complicated things with USB, Ethernet, DIY PWMs with hardware interrupts and fast response times then save up, take a deep breath, and buy a good compiler and programmer. And good luck.
None. It's 128/256 bytes because that's the only program space which is downloadable in the lower spec PICAXE's. The rest of the memory cannot be used regardless of what firmware commands are present or not."Having only 256 bytes of program space is somewhat limiting - how much of that space could be freed up if certain commands are not used?
Hippy, you hit the nail on the head…… "very easy to use by novices" That’s ME!........"very easy to use by novices"