Recent content by papaof2

Don't beat on yourself for not reading the author's mind. I think that very few people have that gift ;-)

Thank you for all the knowledge and experience you've shared with us. Enjoy your reboot into a new lifestyle! I've officially been retired for 25 years but I kept finding work (Maybe work kept finding me?) along the way. I enrolled in a local university to complete the degree I never finished...

Looks like a good start. Would the master be polling the PICAXEs or would each PICAXE set a pin high/low to indicate it has new data? Or would the PICAXE run data collection in a loop and only notify the master if the most recent voltage reading is out of limits? How would the master notify...

Thank you three times!

Found some code for reading a ublox GPS with an attribute to www.gpsinformation.org - that might be a place to find more info. It looks like PICAXE code that sends all the info to the terminal so maybe I found it here? You'll have to determine your GPS's data speeds and so forth. ' 'NMEA ref...

I know it's do-able because I worked with a guy who was trying to make a dog a messenger with a backpack and GPS guidance. Recorded spoken words of "Forward", "Right" and so forth triggered by the GPS's position and a (rather large) lookup table. I think the design may have had two 40X2's in...

Browsing a magician's forum, I found an even more impressive version (sorry, didn't save the link). The magician begins with turning on the blue light and his patter is "The colors are the souls of the lights..." At which point he removes the blue cover from the handle of that switch and keeps...

I'll guess you did NOT tell the editor which PICAXE you were using. If you had, the error message from the Syntax Check would have been: let dirsb=255 ^ Error: Unknown symbol - dirsb "Unknown symbol" because that command does not exist for the 40X1.

"old-school analog brick" - Some of those things just won't die. I have one powering the 08M and the fan it controls in the A/V cabinet. It's been running since September 2006 - although the original 08M was replaced with an 08M2 just to see it there were any differences in the operation of...

Can you change: speed parity number of bits/character (7/8) etc. Regardless of the hardware, it looks/sounds like those type mismatches in wired serial communications. Some of the wireless comm protocols do show their great-grandparents in some of their operation. Might not apply to the Dorji...

Is the pot a linear pot - as in used for voltage control - or a logarithmic pot - as used for volume control? Log pots have a non-linear change across the pot's rotation and that might be a problem when interpreting the ADC values.

I love watching fertile minds get the seed of a new idea dropped in and then it quickly grows and flowers - although some of the flowers are much larger (or is it smaller?) than others ;-) Keep up the ideas - even if I never program this process on a PICAXE, I'm seeing lots of ways of creating...

You have already whipped out the code for an 08M2 driving a 4 line by 20 character display and either a keypad or a set of pushbuttons (or touch switches) labeled 0 through 9 plus Delete, Backspace and Compute, haven't you? ;-) Then the next contest will be whose code can do it the fastest...

The laptop is old, but it's specs are better than the minimums and I've not (yet) tried to use a 3D view - but I did include the "yet" ;-) Just trying to see if it can process the mostly small and simple pieces needed to reduce the flex in the plastic frame of the 3D-printer-to-be. Regardless...

Good solution!