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I've been dealing with chronic back pain for several years and have exhausted the pain relief levels of a "patch" 7 day system (Butrans) and I've now been moved to an inside the cheek (buccal) "12 hour" system (the "patient information" documents for that Rx read "This could kill you if"). My...

Good solution for getting the best heatsink contact. My LiFePO4 projects are not YET that big - the 4 cell 10AH battery which replaced the AGM battery in the equipment shed lighting system is the biggest so far and that BMS is very small because the lighting load is just over 1 amp. The...

First, check the wiring and the soldering. Assume the device was built by your worst enemy and look for all possible faults.

I suspect "Z/C" is a place for a zero crossing sync signal either incoming or outgoing. I've not used that chip so that's all I can help with - check the datasheet. PWM with AC will definitely require synchronization of the PWM signal with the AC waveform or the power out of the triac will be...

Have a piece of poster board and a broad marker. Let them draw the circle on the poster board - or be helpful and get some of marker on their hands ;-)

On the same quad core, Win 10 64 bit computer, PE5 loads faster - I think that might be partly from spending less time looking for the AXE027 (or equivalent) and partly from the smaller program file being loaded. I have both but I'm more likely to use PE5 for designing my own or for testing...

Limited battery capacity and life were the reasons some early satellites used nuclear power cells, with the heat of nuclear decomposition warming thermocouples to provide long-term power. There were some near-panic responses when the launches of those sats failed and they had to find and...

8 spaces is the traditional tab size. Various word processor and IDE designers have used their choice of "tab" size over time until the original size has become muddled and the reasons behind it have become lost. Think of the source of "tab" as in "tabulate" which generally meant having...

I see bpowell is having those tic's again: Tongue-in-cheek.

Possibly a combination of e-waste computer licenses and partially used site licenses. If you're very familiar with Word, most of the keyboard shortcuts in the free packages are similar and a few are identical. To avoid copyright problems, some of the most frequently used shortcuts are one...

No, the "slop" of "You is" was in Word 2003, so well before AI. It's still in Word 2013 and I refuse to spend more money for another version that requires re-learning all the shortcuts I have muscle memory for after running a million words through Word 2003. I only went to a cheap copy of...

English in any country is something of a mongrel, with England's sea-faring traders having acquired as many (or more) new words as they did new goods in their travels. But that also means learning English could be entitled "An Introduction to 80% of the World's Languages" ;-) As a writer , I...

Nicely done!

You may always ask. No promises that someone will have an immediate answer but your are almost guaranteed that someone will eventually have an answer. There some very dedicated "Sherlock Holms and the Electronic ???" people on this forum. Wonder if that's because PICAXE is a product of his...

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...