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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...

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.

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...

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...

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...