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I am working with serial communications for another project I'm working on. What happens is when I poll a device using serout and immediately use serin after that to wait for a response, the data I receive isn't correct. But if I use hserout and follow it immediately with a serin command, I...

I'm a little confused about the parity bit used with serial communications. I understand why it's used and I understand how to use it. I have a device which uses 1 start bit, 8 data bits, even parity bit, 1 stop bit. I know the picaxe adds the start bit and stop bits automatically and doesn't...

I am trying to communicate to a serial thermal printer and I can't seem to get it to work. I can work with a serial LCD and my code works fine for that, but I'm not sure with the printer if it's my code or my circuit that is messing me up. Can I just run a ground and serial output to the...

I am trying to count the pulses in to my picaxe 40x2. I have something outputing a 50ms on, 50ms off pulse. I am reading the input pin using this code: count d.1,1000,w1 I have one pulse wire connected to input d.1 and a 4.7K resistor tied to +5V. I am not reading any pulses and I am not...

Can anyone help me? I'm getting very frustrated because I ordered some picaxe chips for a project I'm working on and I received them last week. I have been trying to get the programming software so I can start playing with the chips. But neither picaxe or the place I got my chips from has...

can anyone help me out with the power consumption of the LCD display with the clock function? I am trying to size a power supply and I'm having a hard time finding any information about power consumption for the picaxe chips or the LCD display.