Recent content by nbw

I think I would like to get some muscle wire to experiment with - asking for suggestions / recommendations from people who have bought it before (we don't have it in NZ) - where have they bought it, where the site has a good range? I'll be after the thinner stuff I suspect, that needs perhaps...

I'm thinking of a big seahorse next - maybe 40-45cm tall - with musle wires to make the dorsal spines flex!

I feel another deep sea / PICAXE project coming on, with muscle wire :-)

Muscle wire - I'll learn about that for the next project - thank you! the link is to the video on youtube, thanks!!

Thanks! It looks so much better in video, but I don't think I can upload one here - it's only 45 sec but 90Mb. It took 90-100 hours to make, features a 20X2 and 4 separate triangle wave generators to phase the four pairs of tentacle LEDs on and off. Also has a blue EL wire coiled on the inside...

and one more

here's 3

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I reduced a couple in size... here's number 1

Everyone, I've finished it. My stupid phone takes photos that are huge, which is annoying. I've posted several pix and a 45 second video on my Facebook page if anyone is interested. All PWM (thanks Hippy, premelec, and the others) channels working great on my six foot tall jellyfish made from...

premelec: you've found it. Thank you very much - I really appreciate it. Barney

Sorry, it's a bit long. Hippy's code is the original , mine starts from the line "Barney's code". I put mine as a subroutine called just before Hippy's loop.

#Picaxe 20X2 #No_Data ; Note : Do not set DWELLx to zero ! ' TIME value is the length to fade up and down. Dwell is the pause in between Symbol TIME1 = 3300 : Symbol DWELL1 = 1200 ' c.5 3300,1200 are good values Symbol TIME2 = 4500 : Symbol DWELL2 = 1900 ' pin 3 Symbol TIME3 = 2400...

I'll post the code when home from work, fair call. Thanks, I appreciate it :cool:

any ideas anyone? I still haven't managed to figure it out......