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    touch input

    hi, i,ve been plodding along with this idea for to long, am trying to add serial touch input using 14m2 too a little bot am making again using brass "drawing pins":p.I do need a better touch sensor was thinking off using coper stripes rev ed sells 3mm coper stripes i was thinking off...
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    touch on a 28x2

    hi, am trying to add five touch bottons,to a project using a picaxe 28X2 (b.3)and am not having much joy #picaxe 28x2 main:do touch16 a.0,w0 ; read value into w0 touch16 a.1,w1 pause 20 debug loop this is the test code it work on a 14m2 although i change the code to work b.5,b.4 and the...
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    driving in a straight line

    hi all, I,ve made an observation while running my little bot that i have to keep changing the value of the speed control setting. I set it up with freshly charged battries to go in straight line after a couple of minutes it will start vering left or right is this to be expected...
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    touch pad

    hi, I,ve been working on a nine button touch keypad using an 18m2 which is connected too a serial lcd ( axe133) which is working well.What i would like to do now serialize the key pad so it can comminacte with a 14m2 or any other picaxe i,ve planned to use pins c.2 and c.7 on the...
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    led matrix

    Hello all and good day, Well my Wednesday project taken a side step it was going to be button press indictor and turned into a led matrix display 5x5 small but workable. Am using five bc38 transistors for the columns and five 260 ohms resistors for the rows, so that’s 25 led for 10 pins...
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    site down

    just a quickie when will techsupplies be back online as i getting an error on the buy now link? cheers rob
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    servo power supply

    hi, I need some advice on a regulater for servo, am after powering a servo project from a mains adapter Ive tried a lm7805 ok with one may get away with 2, I've seen LM338T variable 5A is this a siutable regulater to power 7 servos i'd be greatful if someone could offer any advice...
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    Strange behaviour with servo

    hi, Am still exploring the use of servos using techs factory modified servos for continuous rotation for a differential drive system and a micro servo for panning an srf005. Am using a picaxe 20 x 2 am using a program that is put together from the forum and an Evil genius. If you are a...
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    community groups

    hello all, looking over the "picaxe community" web space we have groups My Question whats that about is like a chat room and links or like an open arena where members share progs,ideas,pics, i know even less about forum sites than a picaxe which is begining to stick in the grey...
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    20x2 conversion wizard

    evening all, Am testing some some adc values using a 20x2 and noticed that this code #picaxe 20x2 #no_data main: do pause 10 high c.0 high c.4 readadc 9,b1 readadc 7,b2 readadc 1,b3 readadc 2,b4 debug loop works as it does,when put though the P.E x2 conversion wizard changes the...
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    problem copying from a book

    hello again, i am yet stuck again this time i,ve copied the following program from the book "programming and customizing SE" the programme meant to be for 08m, i dont fully understand it all but i put it through the wizard for an 28x2 when i run the syntax checker it comes back...
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    3x4 keypad

    hi, I,ve got this keypad from tech supplies in front of me for some time now and am struggling to understand which is the column and rows i have added an row of pins so i can put it on a bread board am going to attach it to a 20x2 but i cant get of the starting block could anyone explain...
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    how many pwm on the 28x2

    hello all, i been reading the updated manuals, while looking over at a glance the pinout diagrams of the X2 parts it appears that the new 28x2 has 4 pwm outputs C.1,C.2,B.5,B.0, is this right. cheers rob
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    how to I2C

    hello again, am still working on my led chaser am using an 20x2 to control 9 led that part is going well. making varies subroutine for different sequences what am struggling with is how to activate the varies subroutine i have a 40x2 which is the master picaxe and i...
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    eeprom address

    hello, am struggling to understand the eeprom address which is a 24lc256 i have made one board which i followed the manuals and that work fine with this i2cslave %10100000, i2cfast, i2cword now im trying a second board which i become stumped on if i tie the A0 high Q. do i use a resistor...
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    adc values to axe33

    hello again am in a fix been trying to read the values of five ldr on the adc 0 to 5 and send the via serout to the axe 33 and am not sure if it hardware setup or my code could someone help please, main: for b0 = 0 to 63 readadc 0,b1 readadc 1,b2 readadc 2,b3 readadc...
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    srf005

    hi, i,ve been using srf005 in my robot project finally getting around to programming lots of fun the srf005 is on a servo panning lft to rgt working brill, now the 0v line breaks off put the srf005 still work?. can it be left this way? or is impending doom waiting round the corner...
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    axe181 with servo

    hello all, i have the axe 181 with a servo the test program is'nt doing what i thought it would do, which is pan lft and right once a botton is pressed. lkrgt is doing wht i expect but lklft want instead of paning from center to lft it jumps to the lft then pans back to the center...
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    axe 33b backlight

    hello, i have put the axe 33b module together able to send text all that side works well. but unsure about how to get the backlight to work i,ve fitted the resistor in the rb for 5v. On page 5 of the manual it states backlight on and of by an external circuit i understand that but i...
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    battery monitor project

    project : battery monitor picaxe 20x2 my exp, beginner in both electronics and picaxe hello, i,ve gone about moniting the voltage of two battery pack the picaxe pack is 3AA bat box, second 4AA both packs are alkaline for now intend to test ni-mh and cad. so am reading fom the...
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