I purchased a couple of axe-08's a couple of weeks ago together with a serial cable, proto board and battery box.
I was able to program realistically double blinking leds for my r/c model aircraft wings -much easier than using LM556.
However.... my knowledge of electronics is zilch ... I would like to further my association with these little powerhouses with another project. I have not got a clue what a pulldown resistor does, nore do Iunderstand all the electronic acronyms bandied about in these excellent forums...
I have a JR transmitter/receiver that can operate on PPM, or PCM (SPCM or ZPCM) and would like to determine the position of the throttle stick and also maybe later, the aileron stick. The JR destruction book says "Output Pulse - 1000-2000 (1500 Neutral)"
I found Hippy's excellent post 14-01-2008, 19:01 that details some great code that I think is relevent to my problem.
This is what I would like some help with...
How do I hook up the receiver to the the proto board, and also later, to a stand alone picaxe (diagram would be great)
Can I power both the proto board and the receiver with their own independent batteries and hook up the receiver's output signal wire to one of the picaxe input pins?
Some simple code to determine the stick position.
Like many novices I am doing it tough in this area - have been confused with pin/leg numbers as opposed to those numbers used in code.(think I have it now though)
Any help would be appreciated
Cheers,
Rocket
I was able to program realistically double blinking leds for my r/c model aircraft wings -much easier than using LM556.
However.... my knowledge of electronics is zilch ... I would like to further my association with these little powerhouses with another project. I have not got a clue what a pulldown resistor does, nore do Iunderstand all the electronic acronyms bandied about in these excellent forums...
I have a JR transmitter/receiver that can operate on PPM, or PCM (SPCM or ZPCM) and would like to determine the position of the throttle stick and also maybe later, the aileron stick. The JR destruction book says "Output Pulse - 1000-2000 (1500 Neutral)"
I found Hippy's excellent post 14-01-2008, 19:01 that details some great code that I think is relevent to my problem.
This is what I would like some help with...
How do I hook up the receiver to the the proto board, and also later, to a stand alone picaxe (diagram would be great)
Can I power both the proto board and the receiver with their own independent batteries and hook up the receiver's output signal wire to one of the picaxe input pins?
Some simple code to determine the stick position.
Like many novices I am doing it tough in this area - have been confused with pin/leg numbers as opposed to those numbers used in code.(think I have it now though)
Any help would be appreciated
Cheers,
Rocket