Recent content by papaof2

I see bpowell is having those tic's again: Tongue-in-cheek.

Possibly a combination of e-waste computer licenses and partially used site licenses. If you're very familiar with Word, most of the keyboard shortcuts in the free packages are similar and a few are identical. To avoid copyright problems, some of the most frequently used shortcuts are one...

No, the "slop" of "You is" was in Word 2003, so well before AI. It's still in Word 2013 and I refuse to spend more money for another version that requires re-learning all the shortcuts I have muscle memory for after running a million words through Word 2003. I only went to a cheap copy of...

English in any country is something of a mongrel, with England's sea-faring traders having acquired as many (or more) new words as they did new goods in their travels. But that also means learning English could be entitled "An Introduction to 80% of the World's Languages" ;-) As a writer (13...

Nicely done!

You may always ask. No promises that someone will have an immediate answer but your are almost guaranteed that someone will eventually have an answer. There some very dedicated "Sherlock Holms and the Electronic ???" people on this forum. Wonder if that's because PICAXE is a product of his...

Don't beat on yourself for not reading the author's mind. I think that very few people have that gift ;-)

Thank you for all the knowledge and experience you've shared with us. Enjoy your reboot into a new lifestyle! I've officially been retired for 25 years but I kept finding work (Maybe work kept finding me?) along the way. I enrolled in a local university to complete the degree I never finished...

Looks like a good start. Would the master be polling the PICAXEs or would each PICAXE set a pin high/low to indicate it has new data? Or would the PICAXE run data collection in a loop and only notify the master if the most recent voltage reading is out of limits? How would the master notify...

Thank you three times!

Found some code for reading a ublox GPS with an attribute to www.gpsinformation.org - that might be a place to find more info. It looks like PICAXE code that sends all the info to the terminal so maybe I found it here? You'll have to determine your GPS's data speeds and so forth. ' 'NMEA ref...

I know it's do-able because I worked with a guy who was trying to make a dog a messenger with a backpack and GPS guidance. Recorded spoken words of "Forward", "Right" and so forth triggered by the GPS's position and a (rather large) lookup table. I think the design may have had two 40X2's in...

Browsing a magician's forum, I found an even more impressive version (sorry, didn't save the link). The magician begins with turning on the blue light and his patter is "The colors are the souls of the lights..." At which point he removes the blue cover from the handle of that switch and keeps...

I'll guess you did NOT tell the editor which PICAXE you were using. If you had, the error message from the Syntax Check would have been: let dirsb=255 ^ Error: Unknown symbol - dirsb "Unknown symbol" because that command does not exist for the 40X1.

"old-school analog brick" - Some of those things just won't die. I have one powering the 08M and the fan it controls in the A/V cabinet. It's been running since September 2006 - although the original 08M was replaced with an 08M2 just to see it there were any differences in the operation of...