New! Improved! Better, even! The Final Poll Part 2
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westaust55
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with the heading having no reference to PICAXE chips and including the text "The Final Poll"
does this mean there will never be another poll on the forum?
does this mean there will never be another poll on the forum?
Considering the number of forum members and looking at the number of votes cast, it is not a very good indication of preference.
Be nice if Rev-ed released some actual sales figures for 2011 on the different chip ranges to give a better indication of actual chip preference.
Be nice if Rev-ed released some actual sales figures for 2011 on the different chip ranges to give a better indication of actual chip preference.
Purchasing any number of a given PICAXE chip doesn't mean that version is your favorite, so sales numbers don't really come into it. I usually choose the 20X2 just to play with on the workbench because of its versatility, but will purchase 08M's if that's all that my specific projects require.
Andrew Cowan
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Could do, but it would have to be The Final Poll Part 3...
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fernando_g
Senior Member
Or title like a Hollywood movie; The Final Poll, Reloaded
Now seriously...these numbers do not reflect the actual number of units sold, but the user's personal preferences once that he/she has used the devices.
For instance....The poll does reveal the fact that the 08M is a very popular device due to the fact that it packs a surprising amount of punch in a small and inexpensive package.
Yeah, that's true - a downside of having just 10 options...
I had a 40X that ran an aquarium controller (on about 1900 bytes of code) managing pumps, halide lights, fluoros, dosing pumps, heaters... the works. Ran beautifully for years. It had an RTC set-up so it would auto-adjust for daylight savings too.
She was all legs, that girl
I had a 40X that ran an aquarium controller (on about 1900 bytes of code) managing pumps, halide lights, fluoros, dosing pumps, heaters... the works. Ran beautifully for years. It had an RTC set-up so it would auto-adjust for daylight savings too.
She was all legs, that girl
Well, the poll's closed and the results are in. Listing all PICAXE types with this poll on the left, last poll on the right the votes were as below. '-' means not counted individually ( votes combined under others ), and '*' are the votes for 28X1 and 40X1 combined ( 5 in total ), split 3:1 as per the first poll.
Though it wasn't possible to have a vote per PICAXE I think the choices here were a good compromise, considerably reducing the 'other' vote, revealing 28X2 and 40X2 support and I wouldn't say the X1 combination really distorts the results.
And the sorted results are ...
As to what those results actually say or mean ...
Though it wasn't possible to have a vote per PICAXE I think the choices here were a good compromise, considerably reducing the 'other' vote, revealing 28X2 and 40X2 support and I wouldn't say the X1 combination really distorts the results.
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Voters 39 ( multi ) 58 ( single choice)
08 - 0
08M 23 58.97% 15 25.86%
14M 4 10.26% 2 3.45%
18 - -
18A - -
18M 1 2.56% -
18X 11 28.21% 11 18.97%
20M 2 5.13% -
20X2 15 38.46% 14 24.14%
28 - -
28A - -
28X - 0
28X1 * 9.61% 3 5.17%
28X2 14 35.90% -
40X - 0
40X1 * 3.21% 1 1.72%
40X2 7 17.95% -
other 3 7.69% 12 20.69%
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08M 23 58.97% 15 25.86%
20X2 15 38.46% 14 24.14%
28X2 14 35.90% -
18X 11 28.21% 11 18.97%
40X2 7 17.95% -
14M 4 10.26% 2 3.45%
28X1 * 9.61% 3 5.17%
20M 2 5.13% -
40X1 * 3.21% 1 1.72%
18M 1 2.56% -
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I think the poll speaks very loudly as to the past popularity of the now retired 08M
and current popularity the 20X2.
With the 08M2 replacing the 08M, and the 18X no longer available, my guess is that 08M2
and the 20X2 are RevEd's most popular current Picaxe offerings, with the 18M2 and 20M2
not too far behind.
and current popularity the 20X2.
With the 08M2 replacing the 08M, and the 18X no longer available, my guess is that 08M2
and the 20X2 are RevEd's most popular current Picaxe offerings, with the 18M2 and 20M2
not too far behind.
Minifig666
Senior Member
Obviously the 08Mxs will be, per unit sold, the most popular product. Packs of 50 going out to schools will boost it up a long way. (It would be interesting to see which Market sells the most units).As it's been said, the 08M is a brilliant little thing for the money, and cheap too. It's amazing what you see people doing with them so I'm not surprised they won!I was a bit surprised the 40xs didn't do better, considering the amount of raw POWAH they offer, but they can be a bit scary to handle!
40X scary? No, just check your helmet and tighten your seatbelt ;-)
A friend asked for assistance designing a prototype semi-autonomous locating/tracking device. My design used a 40X2, a 28X2, and a uM-FPU (managing a GPS and about a dozen other peripheral devices). The person funding the project has decided that I2C between chips is too complicated (i.e., he doesn't understand it) and that a 32 bit ARM chip (probably in the Cortex series) would be a better choice (the ARM chip includes a vector FPU). Many of the peripherals are I2C, so the need to understand it will still be there. I don't think he's discovered how much configuration is required to get the pins on one of these chips to perform the functions needed - what the PICAXE does with the SFRs behind the scenes must be done by the programmer (READTEMP is a marvelous simplification of the one wire process). If the potential market were in the tens of thousands, I would say the economics made sense (~$5 for one chip versus $40 for 3 chips), but for potentially a few hundred units, the cost of the switch to C/C++ development will likely exceed any savings on the chip/board cost because it will take several months to translate existing functional code to the new platform.
Oh well. I did get to play with a multi-PICAXE breadboard and some cutting edge toys as I assembled the prototype and tested the interfaces to the "goodies": 3-axis accelerometer, servo mounted laser, FRAM, I2C digital compass, I2C thermometer, etc.
John
A friend asked for assistance designing a prototype semi-autonomous locating/tracking device. My design used a 40X2, a 28X2, and a uM-FPU (managing a GPS and about a dozen other peripheral devices). The person funding the project has decided that I2C between chips is too complicated (i.e., he doesn't understand it) and that a 32 bit ARM chip (probably in the Cortex series) would be a better choice (the ARM chip includes a vector FPU). Many of the peripherals are I2C, so the need to understand it will still be there. I don't think he's discovered how much configuration is required to get the pins on one of these chips to perform the functions needed - what the PICAXE does with the SFRs behind the scenes must be done by the programmer (READTEMP is a marvelous simplification of the one wire process). If the potential market were in the tens of thousands, I would say the economics made sense (~$5 for one chip versus $40 for 3 chips), but for potentially a few hundred units, the cost of the switch to C/C++ development will likely exceed any savings on the chip/board cost because it will take several months to translate existing functional code to the new platform.
Oh well. I did get to play with a multi-PICAXE breadboard and some cutting edge toys as I assembled the prototype and tested the interfaces to the "goodies": 3-axis accelerometer, servo mounted laser, FRAM, I2C digital compass, I2C thermometer, etc.
John
That's a good way of summarising it!
I think over time the 20M2 will become the popular beast - a great price, has more toe than a Roman sandal and has tons of IO to boot.