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    Cheap USB to Serial adapter to leave in your project

    Hi, For some projects I need constant Picaxe to PC communication over USB. The Picaxe download cable is very nice but at 12£ it's quite expensive (compared to the low cost of a picaxe) it also, for a good reason, lacks the ability to power the picaxe. One example is a project where I upgrade...
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    setfreq m4 and server stability

    Hi, I'm working on a application that uses a small (cheap) servo. Basically the servo mimics the position of a pot meter. The servo uses a seperate power supply and the picaxe cirquit uses 2 caps to stabilise the power supply. However I notice a difference in the stability of the servo when I...
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    simple speed test 08M2. (Slower than 08M and 08?)

    Hi all, Just received my new M2 picaxe chips. :) I had some 08 and 08M chips laying around so I decided to do some tests. One of these tests is a simple speed test. Code: setfreq [k31, k250, k500, m1, m2, m4, m8, m16, m32] output 4 do toggle 4 loop the picaxe is powered...
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    08M/14M time measuring

    I'm playing with the idea to experiment with (semi-)high speed photography. The idea is to capture arrows, darts, bb's shot at 400 feet per second, falling eggs etc on a picture. In order to do this, one has to be extremely lucky while pressing the camera trigger or use some electronis to do...
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    is this cool or what?

    With 25$ they are not the cheapest thing but man they look very cool. it's a PIC that is controlled via a 2400 or 9600 baud RS232 (ttl level) interface. it has a 16khz sound output and can to text to speech with 6 Independently Controlled Voices. It can also do Amp, Freq, Ring Modulation. And...
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    True random generator

    Hi, I would like to create a true random generator using a picaxe. The idea is that the picaxe gets some unpredicatble data from the outside world. and sends it, after proccessing, to the serout pin. Has anyone done this before? I would like to use 2 NOT ports from a 7414 to create 2...
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    RGB LED control

    I'm thinking of controlling a RGB LED with picaxe. The idea is that the picaxe will be connected to a computer and listens for serial commands. I have read the hpwm command documentation but something is not clear to me yet. It states that the new parts can contol up to 4 lines with hpwm. does...
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