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After tinkering with Picaxe Touch for a while, I found that TTP223 was a much more reliable touch switch, and cheap and simple too.

I was going to suggest MSF clock (see post 36 here and hardware) but stumbled on this - simpler and cheaper. That one's in Canada, expensive postage to UK but I'm sure similar things exist elsewhere.

That's the magic potion that I needed. Thanks for all the tips. I think the touchpad has to go; there's a wireless mouse nearby...

New computer with a super sensitive touchpad that I haven't yet completely mastered. Somehow, I have messed up the two panes on the left side of the window, "Workspace Explorer" and "Simulation". I can put them both side by side, full height, at the left side or floating anywhere but that...

DAC 100 only exists when the #DEFINE DAC 100 ... line is used. Check it in the simulator.

It's easiest understood IMHO starting at the bottom: The line DAC 100 in the DO...LOOP is replaced by DAC 50 DAC 50 because of the #Define DAC 100 line. Then those DAC 50s are in turn replaced by DAC10 DAC10 DAC10 DAC10 DAC10 twice because of the #Define DAC50 ... line. Then each DAC 10 is...

Your lines symbol DISTANCE_THRESHOLD = 2 symbol ALL_SENSORS_PICKING_UP_OBJECT = 1 defin the names DISTANCE_THRESHOLD and ALL_SENSORS_PICKING_UP_OBJECT as constants that have the values 2 and1 throughout the program. Putting a ; in makes the line a comment. To set the name as a variable, use...

When stepping through a program with Macros, the simulator goes directly from the line with a Macro name on to the next line in sequence, not displaying progress through the Macro line by line. Is there a way to alter this behaviour?

Did it for me on hardware, thanks!

When I run the installer, it pauses to ask permission to install .NET (which I think is there already) then after clicking OK, the wizard comes back to say it was interrupted and is stopping. What should I do to get it to continue?

This PIR runs on anything 3-15V and gives high/low output that can be connected direct to a picaxe input if the supply voltage is kept suitably low.

Surely it's meant to be "sertxd"? But fixing that raises "If without endif" error on the next line. Putting endif where that big space is can fix that; is that where it belongs?

Many thanks for that. My rudimentary tests show that it works exactly as I specified. Here's a version that would be easily adapted for other criteria: SYMBOL test = b1 SYMBOL oldmn = w1 SYMBOL newmn = w2 SYMBOL diff = 4 SYMBOL diff2 = 2*diff SYMBOL rollo = 1440 oldmn = 0 newmn = 1438...

Is there a neat way to test if 2 variables are different by less than a small amount? For my application I need to be able to test across a rollover as well. The application is an MSF clock. This normally returns time in hours and minutes. I convert that to total minutes, a word variable mn in...

I had thought the minimum voltage for Vih was more than 2V (should have looked it up!). The 'actual 12V' can be 10-15V so I can happily arrange the pin voltage to be 3.3-5V or a bit less for safety with a voltage divider. Thanks.

I'm planning a monitor/alarm module for a diesel engine with nominal 12V alternator and lead-acid battery. Some digital inputs to a 14M2 will be at the alternator/battery voltage which could conceivably be between 10 or 11 and 15V. Is this from post 4 in this thread be the sort of circuit that...

They were new when they were installed. Now over 10 years old. There's no active cooling but nothing nearby to heat them either. I was aiming for 15-20mA in each LED. It's not practical to measure current in each LED but they all appear to be similar brightness when working correctly. Derek

Since 2010, I have built several Mood lights using up to 32 Piranha RGB leds. Intensity of R, G and B is regulated using PWM at 250Hz or 1kHz using either 3 08Ms or in later versions a 14M2. A power MOSFET drives each colour. Recently, two of these lights have developed an intermittent flicker...

Not quite but I easily achieved 5m using straight 3 core cable. https://picaxeforum.co.uk/threads/utilities-for-mobile-homes-boats-etc.32477/ If longer cable struggles with the data, reducing the baud rate should help. Derek

Agreed. Another pet hate of mine that I encounter from time to time is to describe the same thing with different names at different places in the text. It's a fine linguistic device in literature but in technical work, it just serves to confuse the non-expert, that's me! Any technical authors...