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    What is the acceptance of SMD chips in the community?

    What the title says, what is the acceptance of SMD chips in the community? I see that all PICAXEs are now available in SMD packages, are people happy using these on a development board or are DIPs still preferred? There is at least one obvious benefit to DIPs and that is you can easily replace...
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    Abosultely OT but interesting: Spiders flee Australian flood

    Here's one for Jamster and other arachnophobes I found it looking down on me in a campground dunny.
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    battery bank cell voltage monitor

    Here's a design I did using an AVR chip, it allows unlimited numbers in a serial chain and does temp as well. It should also handle load dump situations up to 45v. It gets power from the monitored battery though so won't work with 2v batteries. I've been meaning to do a 2v version, might get...
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    Pick axe trading post

    A slightly improved version. Rough but good enough.
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    Pick axe trading post

    I saw this a couple of days ago while passing through the town of Mount Magnet in central Western Australia. Ok the spelling isn't quite right but I thought you guys might get a kick out of it.
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    Useful debugging tools/ideas

    Hi Guys, I'm thinking of designing a general-purpose embedded-processor debugging tool along the lines of the Bus Pirate, Open Bench Logic Sniffer et al but (hopefully) with more features. It will all be open source of course. I have a very early list of features I think would be good This...
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    Random Numbers

    It's almost impossible to get random numbers with a processor. Any given RND-style function will produce exactly the same sequence for a given seed. So you need a random seed. Back to square one. You need what is called an "entropy source" ie a source of truly random events and normally there...
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    BUSnet

    I'm working on my fieldbus spec (see here http://www.picaxeforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=15039), specifically on the high-level API and trying to make it Picaxe friendly. Never having used Picaxes though I'm designing from the Rev-ed documentation which is very good but there's nothing like...
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    New field bus, expressions of interest

    Hi All, For several months now I have been designing a microcontroller network (field bus), originally for monitoring and control of devices in an RV (motorhome, campervan, caravan etc.) but now I see it as being useful in any environment. It started as a small project for my own use but has...
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