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Gents...any ideas on how to make a bettercode block to check for the time to wake-up and get ready apppreciated.. http://www.vk3jap.net/blog/so-sleepy

I know I knew how to do this..but for the life of me I cannot recall how I did it..? Let's say b0 = 243 ... I want b1 = 2, b2 = 4 and b3 = 3 Can someone remind me please ...

does any one know if the INT output still works if the DS3232 RTC is running from backup battery ..? I've read the data sheet and about to build a lab up to test.. but wondering if anyone else knows for sure..? so.. when Vcc is removed and it is running from vBatt .. will the alarm(s) trigger...

I'm experimenting with SUPER LOW power mode.. I am using SLEEP and setting DISABLEBOD beforehand but the lowest current measurement I am getting is 780uA (in SLEEP mode) - was hoping to get down around 10uA. See attached pic.. the circuit is super simple. I experimented with the 10/22k...

Hi All.. I note in some of the PIC chips there is USB support.. and you can do some pretty cool things with that. just wondering.. has anyone any idea if we are going to see any USB support in the PICAXE range of chips/code any time soon...? in PICBASIC there are a few commands and indeed...

Folks.. looking for a matrix which shows the PICAXE chip and the corresponding PIC chip that's actually being used. I'm sure I've seen such a beast mentioned but had a search prior to posting here and can't find one - anyone know where one is..?

Hi All, just letting those in the land down under know that there is now an Australian PICAXE forum, linked at the hip with the Australian distributor for PICAXE - Microzed.com.au . The address is : http://picaxe.com.au/forum/ The Oz forum is really aimed at building a closer knit group of...

for a while I have been pondering how to take a spare channel on my RC receiver (Futaba for my Helicopter in this case) and use that spare channel to somehow send signals or binary ON/OFF messages to an onboard PICAXE which I could subsequently do something with. Like, enable NAV lights when...

Hi All, Something very basic is bugging me - no pun! I always seem to be running out of variables.! Granted I'm not a professional code writer so perhaps not following the most ideal practices but I am used to being able to have practically as many variables as I want. To have just B0-B13...

Hi All, I know there is a ton of stuff around on IR , there is almost too much. What I want to do is quite simple - comceptually.. I would just like to knwo if it can be done simply of it the only solution is a complex one. I want to put a box up in a tree - about 12 ft up with a IR sensor...

I have an 18X running of 4.23 Vdc - everything works fine. In production I'm going to use a 12Vdc source so I have a Reg which reliably gives me 5.041Vdc to the circuit. so when I go to program in this second config (with the reg) it will not program, the software says the picaxe is not...

I have been using my 18X for a while now.. have used it with debug many times, watching the values coming back to me just fine.. but now all of a sudden I am getting nothing via debug. I can load a program down and that works fine, the picaxe seems to be functioning normally, ie I can make it...

Hi All, have a PICAXE 18X talking to a DS1307 which is battery backed. In short, the DS1307 is losing time - ie if I set the time at 8:00am then watch it in comparison to my wrist watch/PC.. when the wrist watch/PC comes to 8:01 (60 seconds later) the PICAXE will be reading the time from the...

Hi all, may I ask a question which is perhaps somewhat rudimentary but it's doing my head in anyway! What I wonder is how do you run through a program and do something which takes some amount of time, without stalling the overall program execution to do it. So for example, I have a piece of...

Hi AXErs, I'm looking to make a project where you take a PICAXE and connect it to some kind of Bluetoth TX board etc. When someone gets close to the BT(in range) the kit will try and send them a message (vCard maybe?) or perhaps a picture which has a code in it like "S37 01.111 E144 12.345". I...

Hi, trying to make a PICAXE circuit which does a few things(not shown) but also monitors the battery voltage by way of taking a reading on the ADC0 input. The voltage divider network I have seems ok. The 14M has 1024 bits of ADC so resolution should be good. From my readingthe voltage on the...