Programming Editor for Raspberry Pi

boelle

Member
I hope this has not been asked to much before, search did not give me anything

But are there a programming editor for the Pi or instructions on how to compile/build one from the linux download?

/bo
 

srnet

Senior Member
But are there a programming editor for the Pi or instructions on how to compile/build one from the linux download?
Dont understand the Question ?

Why would the PICXAXE website be the place ask for programing information for the Pie ?
 

AndyGadget

Senior Member
Not Programming Editor, but is there any reason why the AxePad for Linux wouldn't work?

Edit - Nope, needs x86 based Linux.
 

boelle

Member
i thought that the subject would say it all... if i had asked for a programming editor for windows i would surely have been guided to the downloads section

my mistake,,,

no offence intended
 

boelle

Member
yep.. x86 and i would have been good, but the pi is arm based... i wonder why a popular platform as the pi has not been supported yet.
 

John West

Senior Member
Perhaps because almost everyone who computes does it on a Linux, Windows, or Apple OS machine. There's nothing yet for the Android platform either, (which has a far larger user base than the Raspberry,) and likely for the same reason. Everyone with an Android OS also computes on one of the other platforms.
 

westaust55

Moderator
The R-Pi has only been available as the B model for just over a year and the lower cost version for just a few months.
Rev Ed has been working on a new version of the Programming Editor (V6) for over a year. No critisism of the Rev Ed time frame - just reflecting the time frame to incorporate many PICAXE users wishes and then develop well tested software.

As mentioned, there are other platforms that have beena round for quite a while that are not supported - and may never be supported by Rev Ed. However this highlights that you cannot expect the world/vendors/others to support a new product quickly.

Noting that you have been a PICAXE forum member since Dec 2009, one must assume you had some computer to program PICAXE chips prior to the purchase of the R-Pi.
Have you entirely abandoned all other computers?
 

srnet

Senior Member
... i wonder why a popular platform as the pi has not been supported yet.
Time and effort, and is there really a significant requirement ?

I suspect the number of people who only have a Pi but no other platform on which to program PICAXE is very small indeed.
 

John West

Senior Member
It sounds like boelle is in the process of simplifying his/her life. I can certainly appreciate that. I'm paying an embarrassing amount of money each month for a storeroom overflowing with electronic junk, and junk it is, a storeroom I only get into once every 6 months or so.

As for the smallest, cheapest, lowest power way available of supporting PICAXE development, I'd suggest a used netbook. My tiny ASUS was a freebie and seems to do the job nicely, once I got a stripped down copy of XP up and running on it.
 

srnet

Senior Member
As for the smallest, cheapest, lowest power way available of supporting PICAXE development, I'd suggest a used netbook
Agreed.

I have a Netbook, cheap enough to be replaceable and it can do, although fairly slowly about 99.9% of the stuff I need to do.

If I was really perverse, had lots of time and enough money, I could use a small cheap PCB with some electronics, use way too many connectors and wires, an external monitor, keyboard, mouse and storage for my computing needs.

But thats not simplifying life, its making it way more complex.
 

MFB

Senior Member
Personally, I can't understand why Boelle would want to dispense with ALL old computers. Old laptops in particular can make great test equipment, whether for simply debugging serial coms or (with adaptors) as logic state analysers and scopes. They don't even take up that much lab space. Not sure how I would now undertake any development work without the aid of a couple of laptop PCs.
 

srnet

Senior Member
Personally, I can't understand why Boelle would want to dispense with ALL old computers. Old laptops in particular can make great test equipment, whether for simply debugging serial coms or (with adaptors) as logic state analysers and scopes. They don't even take up that much lab space. Not sure how I would now undertake any development work without the aid of a couple of laptop PCs.
So true.

As well as the netbook, I have a PSION 5, remember them ?, its very handy as a small, battery powered serial terminal for field testing and debug of PICAXE projects.
 

papaof2

Senior Member
Some 10 years ago, I was working on a project for a major telecomm company and needed multiple sources of rs232 data to test an implementation of x25 over ethernet. Having scrounged all the unused (i.e. old) laptops and PCs, I added a couple of ancient RS Model 100 portables to the mix. Programmed in BASIC and running at 300 baud, they weren't fast but did provide a steady stream of connect, transfer data, disconnect operations - including audio alerts (beeps when the link was unavailable).
It all ran fine for several months while other loading was added to the backbone network. Much of it came to a smoking halt the day the 40KW UPS was installed It was a 120/240 split circuit and the electricians had swapped the hot and the neutral on one side of the 120. Lots of groaning from the bigger Cisco hardware, smoke from the PCs, and the smell of overheated electronics all over the lab. Some of the laptops survived, but the desktop PCs and the Model 100's did not.
Not a problem that had been anticipated, as the same crew had done other electrical work with no problems. Testing was set back while alternate sources of rs232 data were acquired and the Cisco routers and switches were checked for possible damge.
Errors like this ultimately fall to the in-charge electrician, who was asking what he could do to help that day as he likely would be fired the next day - the electrical company was responsible for the $1000s in damges to the network equipment in the lab.
 

MFB

Senior Member
Talking about programming laptops in Basic to undertake dedicated testing, brings me back to thinking about the Maximite single board computer again. Embedded PICAXE like Basic (but with graphics and FPM commands) with multiple serial ports, plus I2C, SPI and CAN interfaces. All at a similar price to a Pi computer but has the advantage that you don't have to swap between languages during a PICAXE based development project.
 
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