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    Battery life

    Using an 08 and running a program to flash 3 LEDs (about 10 MA load) every 20 seconds or so for just 10 milli secs how long is my 3 cell alkaline battery pack going to last? My back of the envelope calc seem to suggests a lot longer than the supposed shelf life of the battery. start: high 2...
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    Sign of the times

    From the "huffington Post" "...Just last year, while researching a book on America's digital illiteracy, I met with the Air Force General then in charge of America's cybercommand. He said he had plenty of new recruits ready and able to operate drones or other virtual fighting machines - but...
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    Just to make sure

    I have purchased a 28x2 chip and have a very ancient picaxe 28 project board circa ad 2002 with 2803 and 293D on board. As far as I can tell the 28 and the 28x2 chip will be pin compatible and I can just plug the new chip into the old board. Confirmation anyone?
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    AA Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries

    I see on the interweb that these AA Lithium Iron Phosphate (LiFePO4), are becoming available. With a rated voltage on these is 3.2 V. they look very suitable for driving Picaxe ccts Does anyone have any experience with these batteries?
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    DIY OLEDs

    http://mrsec.wisc.edu/Edetc/nanolab/oLED/index.html This University of Wisconsin-Madison has produced a how to do it of making OLEDs. Is this a route to that 42 inch OLED TV her indoors won't let me have. :)
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    Instructables

    I read Makzine blog http://blog.makezine.com/and Instructables http://www.instructables.com/tag/type-id/?sort=RECENT , Some of which I even find interesting and informative. It is visible that there is an effort being made to (re) educate at least the interested part of the world in technical...
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    Basic back in favour

    Basics biggest critic changes his mind. (at last) http://reprog.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/where-dijkstra-went-wrong-the-value-of-basic-as-a-first-programming-language/
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    Simple pressure sensor

    Instructable seem like it would work.
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    Making Dippy's life easier

    If you haven't seen this already - How to make your answering questions easier http://tinyurl.com/yffa7b9
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    Transistor tester

    www.mikrocontroller.net%2Farticles%2FAVR-Transistortester&sl=de&tl=en&history_state0= This translated German site shows the build details for a ATMega8/ATMega48 based automatic transistor tester. They detail the test procedure and IMHO it looks very piaxable - Nice addition to the tool box...
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    Ay-3-8910

    I have come into the possession of one of these "old" sound effect chips - It looks from the data sheet as if it will be picaxe drivable has anyone done this? Do I need a separate clock for the 8910?
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    WOW

    :) :) :) :) Retired AT LAST!!!!!
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    PIC speech

    http://code.google.com/p/tinkerit/wiki/Cantarino Could this be picaxed? Anyone dare to try :)
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    Minute picaxe controlled robot

    http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-a-Very-Small-Robot-Make-The-Worlds-Smalles/ Instructable tells all.
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    sound effects chips from time gone by

    Whilst browsing around I came on thei site still selling many of the 1980's sound effect chips. Seemed like an interesting picaxe interface project. prices fairly low as well although USA based. http://www.arcadechips.com/product_info.php?products_id=61 this link picks up the Texas SP0250...
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    Driving the AXE33 LCD display

    This is just a comment that may be helpful to others - i got an AXE33 display and clock module out today and set out to connect up to demonstrate to a student - Despite having done this several times from a picaxe28 board the )* refused to drive the display - or the display refused to display...
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    DIY Rotary encoder

    I have had a need for a rotary encoder to turn the rotations of a knob into some kind of digital signal. I needed to know the direction of turning and how many times the knob is turned. I have, after some experimentation, come up with the attached which seems to work OK in my lash up at...
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    Stepper motor order

    I am trying to drive a unipolar stepper. Although I have it turning I feel it i not running at the optimum - is there a clever way to identify the ideal connections and order of excitation of the coils. All the connecting wires are orange (not helpful) :)
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    For next loop

    This is odd and I am sure didn't happen previously: My 5.2 ver picaxe programmer allows you to set a for - next loop without the next state,ment. I "think" previously this errored but now it doesn't?? Any one else reproduce this start: for b0=1 to 10 wait 1 goto start Technical?
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    Pulsout picaxe 20

    This is associated with my radio control thread but a different issue as this seems to be Picaxe based. The pulsout command "Seems" to give an output I don't expect from my understanding of what it is supposed to do: The following code: start: pulsout 2,100 pause 5 goto start should give a...
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