Recent content by adumas

Hi.. I've gone through several iterations of hair loss... Made some progress, but in some areas I'm moving in large concentric circles. I one VB.net program that correctly receives temperature data that I output - also hyperterminal. So I now the sending out part works. I have looked and tried...

I installed studio last night and then progedit - all under xp with the latest service pack. Studio installed fine and progedit replied as well.. However..... When I bring up progedit it says comctl32.ocx failed to load... Any ideas how to fix this?

Hi... I have a picaxe 28x1 circuit that captures temperature readings and displays it on a 4-digit display via a max 7219 chip. I would like to only display the information only periodically, e.g., every minute or so. Can I use the sleep command in such a way that the LED is powered only when...

Hi.. A friend of mine helped me out with getting a 7-segment display interfaced with a max7219. The code and circuit work fine. I'm now trying to expand it's usefulness - I wish to add a temperature input. So, I thought it would be easy to display the decimal point - but not so. I've racked...

Ok... I've read through the documentation on interrupts but am still having difficulty working with them. I need to sense 2 different push buttons and in turn activate different routines. My goal is for the push buttons to behave dependably - I don't want to have to repeatedly push the...

Hi... I would like to flash/blink certain portions of text on my parallel 2x16 LCD display. On the second line of my display, the first 10 characters need to blink. How do I do that? I understand about putting the LCD into command and data modes. And I thought that I would need to write...

Hi... I have 2 separate 28x1 circuits working... One uses vmusic, a ds1309 clock timer and 18b20 temperature probe. No problems. Other circuit writes out stuff to an LCD. Can I combine the two? Any pin contention problems or timing issues I should be aware of?

Two very quick - simple questions. '***************************************************** ; set picaxe type #picaxe 28x1 Symbol x b1 Symbol y b2 Symbol FileName = w2 FileName = "tempdat.txt" '***************************************************** Why is assigning FileName this string...

Hi... I have a working program that will write data to a text file. I want to write out to the text file every second. Everything works until........ I try to write more than 12 times. Then only a few bits of data are written to the file. See loopcounter < 12 in the code section. I have...

I compiled this simple program reading every forum message I could find... It is nearly working.... The display is only showing part of each byte... Could someone let me know what is wrong with the code... I have commented the result I am looking for...

Hi... I have been able to get Vmusic to work great, having various push buttons configured directly to the input pins. In the spirit of trying to better the result, I am now trying to externalize the push buttons so that they are wired to a 08m and the 08m sends serial messages to the 28x1...

Hi... I'm trying to find anything on vmusic2 with a picaxe18x. Has someone posted code for the interface? I just got the module and am anxious to get it to work...

I'm a newbie and am having problems configuring 2 chips. I have configured 2 chips (powered by the same 4.5 power supply). When a reed switch is activated (connected to an 08m chip) an led goes off and then a signal is sent (via a simple wire) to the second chip (18x chip) where another led...

I have uncovered a rather puzzling problem and hope someone can help. I created a multiple looping program to &quot;stress test&quot; the 18x chip. It does 3 separate counts and writes the results to an LCD... I do periodic pauses of 200 - just to give it some time to breathe. Sitting...

Hi.. I'm trying to write to a 4x20 display.. I'm writing out several variable counters and only want to write to specific regions of the lcd. The goal is to use it as a bicycle odometer - I know, how very unoriginal. But, I've got to start somewhere... Here is my code...