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OK. Life is too short and I have had a bad week. Picaxe chips will be on Ebay tomorrow for anyone interested. Axe027 lead binned and the Axe091 programming board hit the wall at 45mph. Back to a far less frustrating Teensy

AAAHHHHHHHHH I HATE THIS EDITOR It's the most unintuitive flawed bit of software ever. I HAVE COM 7 SELECTED, SO STOP TELLING YOU CAN'T OPEN COM PORT 6 Picaxe = Bin

Now it reports... Error: Incorrect hardware connected - PICAXE-28X1 (40X1) vA.5 (expected PICAXE-14M2) What causes it to see the wrong IC?

EH???? Error: Incorrect hardware connected - PICAXE-08 v4.6 (expected PICAXE-14M2) Yet its clearly a 14m2 in the project socket

Why, when it finds and lists com port 6 in the top left settings window (or in fact, find whatever USB port I am trying), does it then report a totally different com port as 'unable to open' when I try to upload? Why isn't it using the com port I have chosen (and there is only one) in the...

Thanks... I do have it working, but now the editor has failed again :mad: I remember now why I abandoned my last Picaxe project. The Editor v6.1.0.0 suddenly decides it can't find any com ports. Tested the 027 lead - that seems fine. Refresh com ports in the editor and it instantly finds the...

Thanks. They are indeed.... in the bin. I have to start being ruthless with this rubbish I have collected over the years. I have loads of displays, and you can buy them madly cheap now... so why spend all day getting difficult ones to work

I have fixed the backlight. No sure if these are going to be more hassle than they are worth however. Thank you for your assistance

I did that. but never found that thread (I have about 25 windows open here). With 7e as the address, the screen flashes then goes off. So it does appear to respond, but turns off the backlight somehow. I am over them now. Don't really want to spend all evening working out the backlight...

The Picaxe I2C scanner you linked to AllyCat confirms its address 7e, so I have no idea why it doesn't respond. I have 3 of these displays that were new and unopened. All three do not respond.

Eh? Not using parallel mode. Binned that (I did say that in the original post) . Now trying some I2C LCD's. All they have written on them is LCM1602. The address is not changeable (Googling that part shows variations with changeable addresses). Have yet to find a datasheet. I have had these...

Isn't 0x3f shifted one left $7e? Still no worky Is that initialisation code correct?

I just checked the display with an I2Cscanner on a Teensy.... 0x3f So what is that in weird PicaxeLand? $4e doesn't work

Hello all I have not tinkered with my Picaxe ICs for quite a while, so last night I thought I would break out the Axe091 and connect up an LCD to a Picaxe. Yea... this box of Picaxe chips are dangerously near going in the bin Started with a Parallel LCD that I know worked, but after an...

Problem solved

Tested the AXE027 lead - fine. It is showing an 08m2 and the correct port in the left hand side window. It shows the correct port and chip at the bottom of the programmer. Re-installed the programming environment Re-installed the AXE027 driver Tried a new 08M2 Ask it to identify the chip, and...

Hi all I basically abandoned Picaxes due to the constant programming issues I was having. One minute it could find the chip, next minute it could not. Returned to an 08m2 today, and on a new Asus laptop.... it found the IC straight off the bat and loaded my program. Great! Then, 2 minutes...

As a side note.... Do Picaxe as a store supply pre-programmed IC's? I have emailed their sales dept and heard nothing. We have a different project ongoing in development that requires thousands of 08m2 in SMD format. With that kind of quantity (our original request was for 10,000 units), I...

Thanks. My main problem is size. The whole thing has to fit in a footprint of 30mm! The smallest induction 'kit' I can find is still too big. The battery will be a 3.7v Lipo. I am now thinking solar charging... using a very high powered light? Again.. gotta find a small solar panel. I...

Throwing the idea out there... and I have NO idea if it would work... This unit is small, do you think if you surrounded the pcb in a coil, you could spin a magnet at high speed around the finished device (in close proximity) and induce a reasonable charge within the coil to be rectified and...