stevesmythe
Senior Member
A suggestion for Technical..
The pin naming for the AXE408 robot shield is inconsistent in places with the pin naming for the AXE401 shield base, particularly the S0 to S7 pins, which correspond with C.7,C.6,B.2,B.0,B.1,B.5,B.6,B.7 respectively.
In Blockly, it would be good if you could select the AXE408/AXE401 combination somehow, instead of just selecting the 40X2 processor. Then, when choosing outputs in Blockly, you could just select the A.x and S.x pins rather than having to go to the manual each time and work out which Picaxe pin it connects to. I spent ages wondering why the servo on S.3 wasn't working when the servo on S.2/B.2 worked fine, only to realise that S.3 corresponds to B.0 not B.3!
The pin naming for the AXE408 robot shield is inconsistent in places with the pin naming for the AXE401 shield base, particularly the S0 to S7 pins, which correspond with C.7,C.6,B.2,B.0,B.1,B.5,B.6,B.7 respectively.
In Blockly, it would be good if you could select the AXE408/AXE401 combination somehow, instead of just selecting the 40X2 processor. Then, when choosing outputs in Blockly, you could just select the A.x and S.x pins rather than having to go to the manual each time and work out which Picaxe pin it connects to. I spent ages wondering why the servo on S.3 wasn't working when the servo on S.2/B.2 worked fine, only to realise that S.3 corresponds to B.0 not B.3!
