I don't have access to a Picaxe the next few days (4th of July weekend...) to try it out myself, so I hope somebody else can answer this:
What is the idle state of the serial out pin (the one that gets driven by sertxd)? I assume it's low, correct?
The reason I am asking, I have a project where I am running short by just one output pin, so I thought I could (ab-)use the serial out pin. It would go to a counter reset, so I could do the reset by sending an arbitrary byte through sertxd (I don't care if this makes the output toggles a few times, as long as i toggles at least once from low to high and then back to low, and then stays there). At the moment that's on a 40X1, but later I'll use a 40X2 (when available).
I remember the there was a way on some Picaxe (the 18X?) to use the serial out pin as a regular output by using poke commands, but can't find that anywhere. Can somebody point me to the respective information? (Hippy?)
Thanks in advance,
Wolfgang
What is the idle state of the serial out pin (the one that gets driven by sertxd)? I assume it's low, correct?
The reason I am asking, I have a project where I am running short by just one output pin, so I thought I could (ab-)use the serial out pin. It would go to a counter reset, so I could do the reset by sending an arbitrary byte through sertxd (I don't care if this makes the output toggles a few times, as long as i toggles at least once from low to high and then back to low, and then stays there). At the moment that's on a 40X1, but later I'll use a 40X2 (when available).
I remember the there was a way on some Picaxe (the 18X?) to use the serial out pin as a regular output by using poke commands, but can't find that anywhere. Can somebody point me to the respective information? (Hippy?)
Thanks in advance,
Wolfgang