I have become interested in using the Picaxe compiler, and am surprised to find that it seems there is no recent discussion about it and no visible development of any tools to take advantage of it beyond the simple command line instructions which are six years old. The documentation on the Picaxe website is titled "Pre-release beta tester information v0.1 © Revolution Education Ltd 2008."
The forum for it is filled with minor problems encountered but I can't find any discussion about how to take advantage of the benefits. All of the discussion about programming multiple chips seems dated and impractical, and there is no discussion about using multiple AXE cables from multiple USB ports and whether or not simultaneous programming could be multi-tasked that way.
Is anyone using it for the obvious purposes -- faster chip programming, distributing compiled (therefore protected) Picaxe code, etc?
By the way, how secure is the code once compiled? Not as secure as the code programmed into a Picaxe, I assume?
Is there a GUI front-end out there anywhere? hippy have you abandoned your project?
The forum for it is filled with minor problems encountered but I can't find any discussion about how to take advantage of the benefits. All of the discussion about programming multiple chips seems dated and impractical, and there is no discussion about using multiple AXE cables from multiple USB ports and whether or not simultaneous programming could be multi-tasked that way.
Is anyone using it for the obvious purposes -- faster chip programming, distributing compiled (therefore protected) Picaxe code, etc?
By the way, how secure is the code once compiled? Not as secure as the code programmed into a Picaxe, I assume?
Is there a GUI front-end out there anywhere? hippy have you abandoned your project?