Hi m8's. It's been a while since my last post. Today Im here to share with you my last picaxe project, it will be (i hope) a car eletronic components tester and simulator. As a automotive eletrician, i struggle everyday with diagnosing faults on eletronic sensors, actuators and actuators with sensors fitted to provide feedback to eletronic control units. Almost everyday i have to grab my handheld oscilloscope or my 08m2 picaxe based scrapbuild "tools".
My idea was to put all this "tools" together inside a plastic box and use a 20x4 OLED display and some bottons... The project begin but the picaxe memory ended due to HMI coding... Result: project halted...
Some time later i stumped with a software called serialcominstruments4, it was a PC software that simplifies my HMI interface by using a laptop. The problem as that the software as incomplete, it was been abandoned and part of the software was in german, my native language is Portuguese i deal well with English, but i don't understand german... Then i stumped with NEXTION and after some picaxe forum search about it. I risked in order a 7" enhanced lcd. That was best decision i made, its pretty simple to interface with picaxe serial, and i give me a powerfull graphics and interface, tottaly personalizable.
As i need to use lots of code to make a 0hz to 255khz pwm generator i use instead a xy-pwm generator board it is controlled by simple serial commands and saves me lot of space ...and time.
As soon as i can, i will update this post with more description.
By now i leave the links to youtube with my projects.
First prototype
Getting used to NEXTION
Last video update
Some spare time making mods on my Vitara dashboard
My idea was to put all this "tools" together inside a plastic box and use a 20x4 OLED display and some bottons... The project begin but the picaxe memory ended due to HMI coding... Result: project halted...
Some time later i stumped with a software called serialcominstruments4, it was a PC software that simplifies my HMI interface by using a laptop. The problem as that the software as incomplete, it was been abandoned and part of the software was in german, my native language is Portuguese i deal well with English, but i don't understand german... Then i stumped with NEXTION and after some picaxe forum search about it. I risked in order a 7" enhanced lcd. That was best decision i made, its pretty simple to interface with picaxe serial, and i give me a powerfull graphics and interface, tottaly personalizable.
As i need to use lots of code to make a 0hz to 255khz pwm generator i use instead a xy-pwm generator board it is controlled by simple serial commands and saves me lot of space ...and time.
As soon as i can, i will update this post with more description.
By now i leave the links to youtube with my projects.
First prototype
Getting used to NEXTION
Last video update
Some spare time making mods on my Vitara dashboard