Picaxe 18 Tutorial Board AXE050U

[hal8000]

I bought a Picaxe 18 tutorial board, some months ago, just started using it.
Mine has the older Picaxe18 chip installed.

On the tutorial board are 3 push switches, 1 LDR and a 7 segment LED display.

I've just checked through the PDF manual but cannot find which pins of the
Picaxe18 connect to which hardware.


I had a look at the pdf file:
http://www.picaxe.com/docs/axe050.pdf

Which does list LDR is connected to pin 2 permanently, but did not see where
switches are connected.


I can get a magnifying glass and phsically trace the PCB tracks, but is there
a schematic anywhere (online or pdf file) that would make this easier.

Sorry if I missed this, thanks in advance.

 

[mrburnette]

@Hal8000;

I believe this will provide you the info you seek:
http://www.picaxe.com/Hardware/Teaching-Systems/PICAXE-Tutorial-Board/

Take a look at the Resources tab. For your use, either the 18M or the 18M2 will both work correctly.

- Ray

 

[srnet]

I had a look at the pdf file:
http://www.picaxe.com/docs/axe050.pdf

Which does list LDR is connected to pin 2 permanently, but did not see where
switches are connected.

Is the comment on the top of page 18 any help;

"The tutorial board has two push switches connected to inputs 6 and 7."

 

[hal8000]

Thanks a lot, any idea of the order of the pins of the 7 segement display?
The manual says the display is connected to all outputs, so I could
just send an output to each pin in turn.

 

[Technical]

Have a look at the top of the actual physical board. All inputs/outputs are actually marked - for the 7 seg see the number pattern directly under the actual physical display.

 

[westaust55]

Welcome to the PICAXE forum.

For the 7-seg display you can also try some deductive skills.
Look at the program code in Tutorial 7 (page 25) of the AXE050 datasheet you linked to in Post 1.
The Let pins = statements are driving the display through the outputs.
There are also words in the datasheet indicating the Decimal point is on output 7.
Read about "pins" in PICAXE manual 2 on page 138.