Recent content by shellakaa

Along with the hall efect for speed, I now whant to set up a strain guage and gps for my bike rides. I will have to find a strain guage that i can connect to the crank i think. Then the gps will log the srain at every point along my journey. All thids data could come in very useful to me. I...

When I search the forum I find good information that I want to have fast acess to. How do I keep it handy ? Is it acceptable to leave a short comment so that I can go to my profile and click subscriptions ?

Hi, and thanks for all helpful bike wheel tips. I have a couple of electronic questions. First relates to button activation. Why is it they float so erratically when I do not have the pulldown resistors in place. I thought there was some voltage value like 1.65V or the like required to...

I would like to connect LCD to racing bike. What sort of sensor should I use on the wheel and anytips where I might get it ?

I2C/TWI LCD1602 Module (SKU: DFR0063) Hi, I included a 2 x 16 LCD in a recent order I am waiting on. The reason was I liked to have a simple display that would just plug in and work with the picaxe i2c commands, and wanted to use synchronus communication and it was inexpensive,seemed...

a general question on parts suppliers for OZ. I have found littlebird fast and very responsive. futurlec.com.au good price, delivery ok. they dont like to communicate much which at the moment is a pain as i used an Old mastercard but it might have worked but they wont answer me so i dont know...

Hi, I was just having a conversation about the benefits of using the 'GO Card' on Brisbane buses rather than using cash. I began to wonder how it worked. You just tag or swipe card on and off it uses the correct amount of credit. So there must be GPS involved. How much information is on the...

Is it normal for all pins to float high ? I am using 18M2 on the axe0901 board which can run 3 picaxe simultaneously. With nothing connected to picaxe, The code: dirsB = %00000000 dirsC = %00000000 LOOP b0=pinsB b1=pinsC sertxd(b0,b1) tHIS returns 32 for pinsC 255 for pinsB