Recent content by pssmith

So this is a 7.5 deg step angle motor, which would lead me (being fick, which I'm good at) to believe 48 steps would make a complete revolution (which will not be televised). Connecting as per instructions and feeding it 48 steps, seems to result in slightly less than 90 deg of motion. 192...

I wanted to do some wireless stuff to my shed & chicken coup - control of lights, remote temp sensing etc, so excitedly bought the XBee starter kit. Put them together yesterday and went through the XBee configuration over a Serial to USB cable. All that went OK. XBee's configured and passed the...

I started playing around with PicAxe chips several years back - when every PC came with a serial port. Recently, I needed an axe for a project so pulled some old 18A's out and promptly realised that my main PC has no serial port. Ordered a USB cable from techsupplies, installed the drivers...