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I am looking at running a routine when a motor starts to rotate and wondering if anyone can tell me the best method of going about this. As the motor is not in the equipment at the moment so cannot get accurate measurements from it but is the paperfeed motor in a epson printer and is a dc motor...

I want to attempt to use the output from a printer paperfeed optical encoder to drive a stepper motor so that the motor follows the position of the encoder, i have done lots of searching on the net for information or examples of this but not really found anything that makes much sense. My...

Hi all this may be a little out of focus for the forum, but i am considering converting a epson A3 printer to DTG (direct to garment) and have been reading on other specialized forums on how to achieve this. Ok so the printer conversion is not the problem and there are enough instructions and...

I am looking at making a binary clock so have just taken a look at the code example supplied with the binary clock project kit and i am at a bit of a loss trying to understand a section. Can someone please explain what is happening here so that i can understand it better or point me to the...

I am attempting to understand the axe110 datalogger and have hit a snag. I have the unit functioning using two ds18b20 temp sensors and a ldr and everything appears to work ok and save the data using the pause function for my timing. I recently purchased some ds1307 rtc from germany and i am...

Can somebody tell me where my code is wrong. I have set up a little rf transmit and receive using the axe213 boards and my rx and tx boards, everything works great with the communication and they happily connect. However i am playing around with connecting the receiver side directly to the 16x2...

Just received my picaxe kits and given them a test run, the logger works great but have a question regards using the datalink in PE6 beta. If i use the data link in PE5 i can display the graph but in PE6 no graph is displayed and there are no menu tabs at the top of the window is this normal ...

I recently received some of the cheap tiny rtc modules with the DS1307 and eeprom and although i have managed to connect it to the i2c ok and program it with the rtc wizard i am having problems displaying the date so i am obviously doing something wrong or stupid. The time displays correctly on...

Can somebody shed some light on this problem that seems to have just started when programming 08M2 chips. Yesterday everything seemed to work ok when testing my code on the AXE091 development board and i could easily program and re-program the 08M2 chip, i noticed today that the oled was not...

Can somebody please tell me how i can flash certain characters in a line of text on the axe134 4x20 oled display. I am trying to make my menu options easier to follow by flashing the number that will be changed, i have a piece of equipment that does this by flashing the variable to be changed...

If i have a variable that stores a value and i want to increase or decrease that value between say a min of 1 and max of 5 how do i code it, i have tried like this but have syntax errors. let bo = bo + 1 if bo >5 then let bo = 5 let bo = bo - 1 if bo < 1 then bo = 1

How do you change the LCD simulator to 4x20, the window shows the options in the bottom but i cannot get it to change and it always remains on 2x16.

I am trying to configure the axe033.bas for my 20x4 oled where the welcome message at the start uses the first 4 message locations but i cannot get it to display them it just shows the message in 0 location on all four lines where am i going wrong the code with my changes is as follows;- ...

Thanks for the info Rick100 and Goeytex, it now gives me something to work on. I will make the mods to my schematic and do some more testing then repost my results Just made the changes to my schematic from your comments, is this correct now before i start breadboarding to test the code ?

Now on my next learn process and attempting to understand the use of I2C communication but require a little help. I have a PCF8574P and a 4x4 matrix membrane keypad that i am trying to get to communicate with a picaxe 08M2 but not having much success at the moment below is the code i am using...