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    Picaxe chips supplied in there original pic form and without picaxe program

    Hi Hippy, we understand that this could be human error our concern was mainly that we seemed to be getting native chips rather than picaxe engraved ones. I have worked with Microchip on many occasions and on many occasions they have got things very wrong LORA WAN development Mot's for example...
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    Picaxe chips supplied in there original pic form and without picaxe program

    hi Goeytex the chips were purchased direct a chap called Colin at revolution education refused that the picaxe 14m2 chips could be faulty so we gave up trying to return them and switched to just using 20M2 and 08M2 chips. we didn't have any issues until now so I thought I would ask the Forum in...
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    Picaxe chips supplied in there original pic form and without picaxe program

    hi Nick12AB, sorry for the late reply the chips were tested in a known good test board and behaved weariedly strobing the serial out pin not like picaxe.
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    Picaxe chips supplied in there original pic form and without picaxe program

    Hi Hippy sorry for late reply, all of our Picaxe chips are purchased through Revolution education. we do not buy from any resellers
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    Picaxe chips supplied in there original pic form and without picaxe program

    Hi All wonder if any of you have had a simlar experience with Revolution education as I have got nowhere with with Revolution education in solving my previous problem. About a year ago we received properly identified picaxe 14-m2 chips we had 10 in stock During a training session we hold for...
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    Cannot communicate with I2C DS3502 Digital Pot

    We Have a working pot! It appears that there could be two possibility's 1. the first pot was broken. (Ill fit the old pot and check.) 2. the time between read and write I had set at 10ms when read the pot replied 255 when there was a delay added between write and read of 20 ms the correct answer...
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    Cannot communicate with I2C DS3502 Digital Pot

    O just another note the test board was built on an anti static bench and I am using a tested wrist strap so static shouldn't be an issue.
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    Cannot communicate with I2C DS3502 Digital Pot

    Hi Goeytex. Thank you for your sugestions. just to answer a few points. There is two engineers looking at the circuit at the moment nether can understand why there is no read from the pot. I am changing the pot and the adapter board just in case there is an issue but all pins ring through and...
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    Cannot communicate with I2C DS3502 Digital Pot

    Hi Inglewoodpete, My lines are short less than 10cm. I am going to attach the I2c fuel gauge circuit to the picaxe circuit to see if it reads ok then swap over to the pot. I will also solder another pot to an adapter just in case there is any problems with the chip but it does work when...
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    Cannot communicate with I2C DS3502 Digital Pot

    Thank you for all your suggestions so I will answer each. Thank you Technical there is a 4.7 k pull up resister on the SCL and SDA lines. Inglewoodpete. Thank you for the information about i2slave being outdated I copied the code from another project that read and wrote to a OLE screen and...
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    Cannot communicate with I2C DS3502 Digital Pot

    Sorry put this post in the wrong place Moved to Active Forum. E
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    I2C Problems communicating with DS3502 digital pot

    Hi All, I am having problems getting any settings or reading from a DS3502. I have tried a simple test code to just read the pot wiper location to try and communicate with the device without success. All is ok if I use an Arduino so the picaxe should work ok. setup: hi2csetup...
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    Cannot communicate with I2C DS3502 Digital Pot

    Hi All, I am having problems getting any settings or reading from a DS3502. I have tried a simple test code to just read the pot wiper location to try and communicate with the device without success. All is ok if I use an Arduino so the picaxe should work ok. setup: hi2csetup...
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    Converting temperature K to C maths not working

    Hi all, I am trying to convert temperature K into temperature C, The formula is straight forward from what I understand K - 273.15 = C. I know the Picaxe cannot use decimal places so I tried these ways without success Picaxe 08M2 setfreq m16 pause 8000 ;Maths 1 to change K into C, W12 is...
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    Motor controller with speed steps stack overflow error picaxe locks up

    I was bit disapointed in the responces. I have maby one or two hours a month to learn anything and felt your responces were more hipacritical than maby providing a pice of program that worked on its own explaining how the picaxe used the gosub process. The picaxe manual is helpfull but when many...
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    Motor controller with speed steps stack overflow error picaxe locks up

    Thanks guy's for your support its about as much use as a chocolate fireguard.
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    Motor controller with speed steps stack overflow error picaxe locks up

    Thank you for your help. I have changed the code and this works but I know there is an easier way than what I have so far. main: IRsignal: symbol T1 = 500 Low B.5 ; micro buzy indicator off irin [1000,main],B.1,b0 ;wait for new signal DEBUG High B.5 ; micro buzy indicator on if b0 = 1 then...
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    Motor controller with speed steps stack overflow error picaxe locks up

    Hi All I am trying to control a motor to have speed steps controlled by another picaxe through Ir numbers loaded into b0, the main idea of this project is to try and master gosub, return and PWM out. The ultimate aim is to have the picaxe receive a number numbers 1 and 10 alter in puts C0 and...
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    Cheap I2C OLED display with 08M2

    Hi Hippy, can you help again please, I have a problem where the value for current is a signed interger, I found another thread which had an example of how to display the value over serial. I modified the code to put the value into a word (well tried) and something strange happened, all the word...
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    Serial issue AT-09 Bluetooth 4.0 Module Transceiver BLE CC2540 CC2541 MLT-BT05 HM-10

    Hi Hippy this code works to output serial to an AX133 and the HC-09 Bluetooth module. I am having issues with the HC-09 in that I can only receive serial using a serial android app I cannot pair the module and the manufacture is no help. it could just be a fluke its working [Bluetooth part...
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