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Hi Everyone its been a long time since I blabbed here but In the last 3 weeks I've been kicking around the idea of using solar for a cool project....like a full size "solar" boat. so if you look out side and the sky starts turning gray and less sun ...don't worry It's just me screwing...

Hi everyone last summer I was at a auction and bought a bunch of these smart boards similar to these https://www.ebay.com/itm/Interactive-Smart-Board-SB680-Smart-UF70W-Short-throw-projector/323062917084?hash=item4b380ce7dc:g:koYAAOSw4vFZ~ouj infact the boards are so smart they out...

Hi Everyone long story short I have lots of left over pieces of HDPE 2" Poly pipe but instead of throwing the poly away I figured I could try making a poly mold ejector ...so I did and it kinda worked but needs to be better I'll take some pictures for future when i get a chance but i'm using...

Hi Everyone In short I just bought a (few) 24 desktop computers/screens etc from a auction with OS windows XP 32bit but since they are from a school I have no idea how to get around the passwords and it seems all the computers where running from a sever so I decided to wipe them and install...

Hi I searched the forums but came up short ... I was hoping someone did a post on tending their car battery since Allycat,Marks and others did awesome posts on reading voltage but I didn't find tender battery posts. Here's my future project ...my 12vdc battery in my riding lawn mower/tractor...

Hi When using the MP3 player with four lm386s...the sound is amazingly clear...when I was testing just using a picaxe/mp3/lm386/speakers...I was able to kill alot of the amped corrupted noise output from the lm386 by adding a 10 Uf cap as close to the vcc/grd on the mp3 (not lm386) as...

Hi I see that picaxe hardware gadgets have mp3 player but I was looking on the site (in the wrong spot) for a 255 word IC chip...I forget the name of it but in short it has 255 words programmed on it and think it uses I2C just wondering if there is such a thing maybe I will have to get...

Hi I was hoping to get this done sooner but miscalculated on how many wires it takes to grab 63 leds but finally have it working and here is a little clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML-9xy5qyk4 here is my first 3/4 code for the display from the clip 'This code is for testing a 8"...

Hi every1 I was curious on the If statements like how many times is possible to use "If...and...and...or...and...then" the reason is because when i using my two switches i used this code dirsc = %00000000 Start: If pinc.1 = 1 and pinc.0 = 0 OR pinc.1 = 0 and pinc.0 = 1 then...

Hi I wanted to make a 10 digit display so I could random do levels on the card game Phase 10 Thanks to Hippy which gave me the random code/idea and Westaust55 for making sample codes for the max7219 What this project does is just basically gives a random order of level as you play the...

Hi everyone I'm a expert/horrible player at the simple card game of Phase 10 and since I seem to play it more then I should I get sick of the normal 1-10 levels so decided to place 1 thru 10 numbers (pieces of paper) in a hat and pick which level is next but me being lazy thought hey a...

Hi I ordered some tlc5940 chips thru hole from ebay and many thanks to gbrusseau and his post found here http://www.picaxeforum.co.uk/showthread.php?8616-RGB-LED-Control-using-RS232-(Serial)/page3 I was able to make a single tlc5940 work using his code and tweeking it alittle I used a 20m2...

Hi I have read a lot of Allycats posts of reading power rail voltage from a M2 chip and I guess I don't understand correctly the purpose of Fixed Voltage Ref from 1024...2048...4096 so if I have on my power supply rail close to the chip 5.00 volts then I use FVR 4096 is that because of...

Hi I built a OPEN sign thinking maybe some day I will have a small supply store. The sign is made from a horrible PCB board but has awesome parts on it. When I have time I add a small code....one thing that saved me from the chips going weird is a while back Westaust55 told me to add caps...

Hi I was wondering if any of you cool people ever used this way to light a led and if it would save power... I haven't tested the usage yet but my horrible thinking is that when the picaxe pin goes high it powers up the led and fills the capacitor then when the pin goes low it uses the...

Hi Hi again! I was playing around with the ring tone tune wizard and I see it goes from Octave #5 but no lower and just wanted to make sure there isn't a way to make it go to Octave #4....btw it is a pretty cool wizard tho so how I did make it go lower is Start: Tune...

Hi friends I dont know the chip they use in the APA102 RGB LED strips but can I get the chip only to run/power any normal 2 v led and control brightness with SPI ...I only seen them (apa102) with the RGB attached or maybe there is better option what I want to do is control 20 standard...

Hi I was curious if there is a better way to make a high current digital potentiometer I search the forums but didn't show any luck my schematic is just a thought and I didn't add caps etc... just basic what i am trying to achieve is make a harbor freight 120V dc mig welder with way...

Hi First of all its a sad day/week for all poeple involved in horrible Las Vegas shooting And my prayers and love go out to the families of the victims My idea is if I ever owned a hotel is to put in place at each room window a super bright light shinning out so it could flash at one window...

Hi everyone I finished my smart light thanks to Marks,allycat,hippy,Lbenson,texas and the rest of you hiding on the forum This light was well worth the effort in building and I used the sunset/rise code from Marks ..plus my added code This light turns on at sunset and turns off at midnight...