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Hi all. I'm not entirely accustomed to PICAXE any more and getting to grips with an 08M (just because I had one spare) with the new editor 6 was a nightmare, especially considering I nowadays use plain PIC with another Basic compiler which is just so friendly, the PICAXE was just a bugbear in...

This is more of a hardware question than code/software question so you may ignore some of the facts below. I've got a little HD44780 LCD here which I MAY in a tiresome stupor have accidently applied power in reverse. Now, im using this with a normal PIC and proton basic compiler and the built...

Hi there! Over the past few months I've gradually been getting used to making PCB's with toner transfer and a little bit of ferric chloride. Now, my most recent acquisition is a UV curable solder mask from off ebay for a little under £2. With this I also purchased some OHP transparency sheets...

Hi there! As some of you may know, I've been making a set of board for a remotely operated set of mains sockets for a college project. So far I have: Made the relay board with a TPIC6C595 shift register Made the top and bottom controller boards including 6 button ADC control, IR control and...

Part of my project for college is to make a control panel. This panel consists of 10 buttons with voltage divider, pull down resistor and de-bounce capacitor 9 LED's with transistors and resistors and a TSOP4834 IR receiver with pullup resistor, input resistor and supply capacitor. It's all...

I shall soon be designing and making a pcb with relays that shall be used to switch 240v ac for a mains supply. I shall most likely have a large copper pad on the board for the 240 to go to the relays instead of having individual traces and to save a lot of individual wiring. How, do I...

I've just had a bizzare idea. I've got a few lm2917 and 2907 frequency to voltage converters sitting in my drawer here. Is it possible; to potentially use this freq to volt converter rigged up to the PWMout on a picaxe to constantly change the frequency in a sweep between 2 values in order to...

This is a project I started sometime ago after setting up on eBay selling resistors/kits. I found that the process of sorting resistors into kits was painfully slow and considering how well they were selling, I could not supply quick enough to meet the demand. So I thought I would come about...

.. I'm curious if someone might be able to clarify a small problem for me with a 'scope I have here. It's a little DSO nano V2, straight from seeed studio. Not a copy. Now, I've recently designed and built a small attenuator for a college assignment. I've tested it using the gear at college...

I don't know if this has been brought up before, I did do a search but couldn't find anything. Just went onto Techsupplies to purchase a few odds and ends, couple of 14M2, few buttons, bit of cable and 3.5mm sockets and saw that instantly £2.50 postage was slapped on. Even with just 2x 14M2 in...

Hi there! I'm trying to interface with an old printer and its linear encoder. I'm using an 18M2 with setfreq 32. The code im using is something I found earlier: setfreq m32 symbol Latch = b0 symbol Counter = b1 symbol SensorA = pinb.4 symbol SensorB = pinb.5 pwmout b.6, 63, b1 main...

This is another one of those "I'm not sure where to put this" posts of mine. Basically, I've set myself up selling resistors in selection packs. Now, for the meantime, I won't include any links or details or anything about it, I only wish to ask if it's at all possible to post such things on here?

Seeing as I can't find a general discussion forum page apart from the active pixaxe forum, and this isn't really picaxe related, I thought I'd post this here. Whilst going one of my random trawls of ebay to find something remotely interesting, I come across this seller selling LM3914 display...

I've recently bought a cheap universal remote from ebay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/260825722421?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649#ht_2852wt_1018 I bought it as it said it supported Sony TV commands and thought it'd be ideal for the picaxe however, since setting up the circuit...

As im currently out of work (boohoo) I'm looking for something to keep me busy henceforth I've decided to use an LM61 (cause it was free) an 08M (cause I've got a few) and a MAX7219 (cause that was free also) to use with 2 * 7seg displays. Mainly, I'm more concerned about interfacing with the...

I've had an idea for a potential project for my college work and I'd like to stick to using just an 08M if I can (cause its all I've got apart from an 18M2) Potentially, I wish to control 4+ relays for mains switching however, I Want to use as few pins on an 08M as possible, so what im...

Was bumming around on RS website looking for an LED driver to use potentially with an LM60/61 sensor for an indoor thermometer for kicks when I come across this: http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/led-driver/0453261/ http://docs-europe.electrocomponents.com/webdocs/0add/0900766b80addaca.pdf It can...

As some of you might have seen, I've been using a bit banged SPI bus to control a DS1802. The DS1802 can also be used by grounding push button controls. When I use the SPI bus to change the uPot, I get an inherent click through the speakers. However, when I use the push button controls directly...

Hi there! I was looking up a way of making my LG TV play divx files from a USB drive. Most other LG TV's can do this but this one in particular couldn't. I just happen to come across a website where a particular person created an IR transmitter using an RS232 cable, resistor and IR LED. He...

Hi there. I've built my own surround sound amplifier and im using an 18m2 to control a pair of SPI bus ds1802 uPots, an lm3914 bar graph display, IR control input and soon a temperature controlled fan. I've noticed that when the amp is on with no music playing, I can hear a constant "beep beep...