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    Do Rev-Ed provide any documentation for PICAXE VSM describing which BASIC commands are not supported and which chip features are not simulated?

    I found the pullup command is missing, it would be nice if that could be implemented sometime. For now I've worked around it adding externals but it's quite a few needless components.
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    Reprogram Axe027 to 6001 PID

    I would say there's a business case for updating the drivers given that so many new PCs have a security feature turned on by default that stops them working. Everything except Windows 10 (for now...) has been aggressively end of lifed. You might even see core isolation becoming a mandatory...
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    Supplied drivers do not work with many Windows 11 machines

    I saw in another thread people are using drivers from elsewhere which are newer (not sure where) and those contain security fixes as well as the ability to run with core isolation, so Rev Ed just need to update from the later versions of the ones I assume they based these on.
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    Losing serial data with sertxd

    Oh just to my laptop using the AXE027 cable. Unfortunately the project is now "over" as I've found the bad chip I'm trying to read, can't be read by this either - it's going to have to go to a data recovery specialist. What I built worked, slowly, but it doesn't solve the problem. At least it...
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    Losing serial data with sertxd

    Setup: picaxe development board, 40X2 chip, very simple circuit/code that just reads data from a ROM chip and writes it out with sertxd one byte at a time. Problem: at 8mhz / 9600 baud, it's "kind of" stable, it's very easy to interrupt the data flow and lose a few bytes. At 16mhz it loses...
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    Supplied drivers do not work with many Windows 11 machines

    Are there any newer drivers available or planned? On Windows 11 with Core Isolation enabled, the drivers will just throw an error 39 and fail to load. This is the default setting now for many machines including all supplied by Lenovo for example, and an important security feature.
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    KiCad footprint for 3.5mm stereo serial part TC38-010

    It's a footprint rather than a full library, create or select a footprint library you want to add it to, and right clicking on the name will offer 'import footprint', that's where you select the file.
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    KiCad footprint for 3.5mm stereo serial part TC38-010

    There's definitely a learning curve between Eagle and KiCad, I struggled a lot at first. I highly recommend downloading someone elses simple KiCad project to study and try to modify, that's what helped me in the end. Key part though is it's really important to do your schematic design before...
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    KiCad footprint for 3.5mm stereo serial part TC38-010

    I needed this for a project I'm building but couldn't find one - so I designed this by measuring the part and a test PCB that just arrived shows it was correct. You'll want to be mindful of the barrel position marked as it sets the edge of your PCB (or add a cut). Hardest thing was getting...
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    Picaxe editor hanging during scratchpad data load (6.1.0.0)

    I have a program that uses over half of the available 1024 bytes of scratchpad space on the 40X2 chip. I have the chip type selected correctly in my basic program and if I load the problem onto the PICAXE itself it runs fine. If I try to run simulataton while another basic program is loaded in...
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    Picaxe control of Adafruit 8x8 LED matrix with i2c backpack

    As I had a large number (81) characters to get hex strings for, I quickly made this perl script, if you have comments in your code like the below you can just paste them at the script instead of typing them in manually and doing all the row manipulation and binary conversion by hand. Supports...
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    Picaxe control of Adafruit 8x8 LED matrix with i2c backpack

    Very useful thread, thanks! I couldn't find any documentation on how these work, just "use our Arduino library!"
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    Strange failure of pulsout command vs high/low

    Yes absolutely certain, A.6 is set low in the initial setup and not touched except in this subroutine. I can see this on my logic probe too. Does program execution continue during the pulse or wait for it to finish?
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    Strange failure of pulsout command vs high/low

    I have some code controlling the STROBE line on a switch matrix chip - switches in the matrix are controlled by setting the address inputs correctly, setting the data to high (on) or low (off), then strobe should go high then low for it to set the selected switch. Pin A.6 is the strobe pin and...
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