Recent content by jensmith25

Any news on the updated software? The new mac update may break Blockly and Axepad. I've not yet updated as don't want to loose access to my older software.

Okay, thanks very much for the update.

I've just had a message saying that the Picaxe Blockly app will not be supported on future versions of MacOSX and needs to be updated. This is concerning as now both apps for programming the picaxe are potentially useless. Is an update in progress for Mac? I see in theory it's up to version...

I was going to ask about this too as I use the AxePad version on my macbook pro and have been concerned about the fact that Axepad won't work after the next major update. I've downloaded the Blockly app and will give that a try.

I've done some investigating and it looks like it's the MP3 player which is causing the problem - it's the Picaxe SPE035 module. http://www.picaxestore.com/index.php/en_gb/picaxe/add-on-modules/spe035.html I took everything off and just supplied power and it was all fine. Capacitor and...

I provided a lighting kit for a customer a month ago and it was working happy as larry during extensive programming and testing. The 18m2 low power board (CHI030). However, they ran it for 10-15 mins and the capacitor got very hot and then nothing worked. I've got it back for testing / fixing...

Hi, I need to use the DF Mini audio module (SPE035) with an 18m2 low power board as the low power board has the voltage regulation required and other bits I need. Anyway, to keep it simple, does anyone know what pins I need to connect the module to to work with the 18M2? I know it's '+'...

I have created several PCBs in the past through DesignSpark PCB for SEEEDStudio manufacture but this time I'm having a problem where when I view the Gerber files, via an online Gerber viewer (tried several including SEEEDStudio EasyEDA one on uploading to manufacture) and the drill files are not...

Hi all, I've got the SPE035 MP3 module with the associated AXE171 14m2 board working nicely but I want to do what I thought was simple and flash the two onboard LEDs once every 2 seconds. The problem is I can either 1) flash the LEDs 2) play the mp3 but not both together. I've tried loads of...

It looks like this:

I needed a very small PCB for a commercial project. I have started designing my own PCB's and have a few successful ones incl the download socket but this one without it isn't working. I have included the decoupling capacitor and the minimum pulldown resistor on the serial in pin (33K). I've...

This might be a bit of an unusual one but I have a macBook Pro and so use the MacAxe software and have no problems at all with programming the 08m2 chips. With the 18m2 I quite often have to try several times to get it to programme, despite it working fine just before and it's also associated...

I have another issue related to some of my recent threads for programming flickering Lights on the 18M2 high power board. The idea is to have two channels so you get different flickering over 24 lights (two sets of 12). I want to put them through the onboard FETs (rather than one set through...

I have been trying to improve code so that it will check for an IR signal on button press while the action is being carried out. eg, I have a flashing light in a loop but I want to exit the loop early if another button is pressed. So far, the only way I can get it to work consistently is to...

I contacted Picaxe about upgrading the FET's on the 18m2 high power project board and they said it should be fine but to ask on here in case anyone has already done it and can suggest the right FET's to use. They pointed out they may need heatsinks if going a lot bigger. Basically the PCB has...