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Thanks for all your help and insight over the years!

See post #16 in this thread, for some great example code by Hippy: https://picaxeforum.co.uk/threads/direct-rs232-connection-08m2-14m2.32726/

I'm in California, and have ordered a lot of the basic chips (08M2, 14M2, etc.) from RobotShop. Shipping is reasonable and fast. https://www.robotshop.com/

To start, please share a schematic of your circuit diagram.

That solution is also discussed in this thread, using a rotary switch: https://picaxeforum.co.uk/threads/rotary-switch-with-readadc.31708/ It works well!

Take a look at this thread, there are a couple of good solutions there: https://picaxeforum.co.uk/threads/rotary-switch-with-readadc.31708/#post-329045

It has been common for quite awhile to think of visual scripting tools (such as Blockly) as just for beginners, and that after learning how to structure code, you should move on to "real" coding. But this type of scripting tool has moved beyond the educational area and is now used in a lot of...

Agree with above...the 18M2 is the odd duck vs. the 08M2, 14M2 and the 20M2. The last 3 share similar pin locations, but the 18M2 is different.

Sparkfun came up with a clever way to adjust the resistor that controls LED brightness. See this blog post: https://www.sparkfun.com/news/5461 I assembled a couple of these, will post a quick video soon.

Another option is OpenSCAD, which allows you to use code to define a project. Here's are some box makers on Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1264391 https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:58944 Search Thingiverse for "box maker" to find more. OpenSCAD is here: https://openscad.org/

Thanks for the link to that YouTube video, he has lots of other clever stuff (mostly with puzzles for escape rooms).

A high school student came up with a very clever, inexpensive way to make a glove controller: https://hackaday.io/project/189165-optical-glove-controller-using-ldr

I haven't heard of it before, but I found this: https://www.scribd.com/document/494627850/HDSD-JQ8900-16p-MANUAL

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It usually takes a few days for the US shipping company to hand it off to your local post office. Then it arrives quickly.

I've got some coming!

Forgot to mention I worked this out on a spreadsheet, I just can't get the same results on the Picaxe. "Touched" at B7 uses an Excel IF formula: =IF(B4 >B6, "Touched", "Not") so I can play with the Detect and Threshold values. "Touched" at B17 uses =IF(B16 >25, "Touched", "Not touched")...

I've been digging up older posts on touch pads, and this one from Hippy on making them adaptive caught my eye (see post #6): https://picaxeforum.co.uk/threads/hardware-implementation-for-touch-control.32564/#post-339859 Along with #2 here...

I've been trying out the built-in touch sensor commands, and tested a few different touch pads to see what (if any) difference there was between materials. I tried out a solder blob (ala Erco - see his first video in post 5...

What you see on those boards for the Picaxe and CH340 headers is an idea from Sparkfun. A friend of mine there figured out that if you make a set of pins slightly zig-zag, the header doesn't fall out when you solder it in. So now whenever I create a header I use their tip. Full details in...