PICAXE Buggy Kit - Interesting site

[westaust55]

While trolling the net earlier today, I came across this site which may be of interest to some newbies.

Includes a school based tutorial and worksheet for the MOD001 PICAXE Buggy along with code snippets.

http://moodle.ttcdtinternet.com/file.php/1/buggy/index.html

 

[westaust55]

More sites that may interest newbies to electronics

Here is another website with basic introduction to general electronics and the PICAXE microcontrollers that could be of interest to those new to the PICAXE chips and electronics in general. Includes some animation and considering some of the members to this forum are not aware of the need for things like pull up/down resistors, etc, this basic level information should be useful.
Some sections on general electronics components are as new as 2008. The PICAXE section was created in 2005/6 and primarily covers the 08 pin and 18 pin chips (but not the very latest in these sizes).

First link to PICAXE pages and second link to general electronics pages:

http://www.technologystudent.com/pics/picdex1.htm

http://www.technologystudent.com/elec1/elecex.htm

 

[Andrew Cowan]

The last link highlights the real danger of terminal blocks (if you watch it long enough).

A

 

[westaust55]

More websites of potential general interest

Here are a couple of websites that may be of interest to others:

Serial printer adapter for use with small Epsom dot-matrix printers
http://www.cdadapter.com/smp.htm

General electronics educational website:
http://www.edutek.ltd.uk/index.html

 

[Mycroft2152]

The last link highlights the real danger of terminal blocks (if you watch it long enough).

A

Which video?

 

[Andrew Cowan]

The animation at the top...

 

[Mycroft2152]

The animation at the top...

You have to be very patient.

Ouch!

 

[MPep]

Andrew,

You're right. Very dangerous indeed.
I mean seriously, did you see the size of those components relative to the guy's head!!

 

[boriz]

Same thing happened to me. No one believes me though.

 

[Andrew Cowan]

Do you work for the electicity board? I imagine they must use components that size for their power lines.

A

 

[westaust55]

Interesting site continued

And for those who might be interested in how semiconductors and other components get their code numbers . . . .
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While starting to search on the topic, I found these websites:

http://www.educypedia.be/electronics/datacomponent.htm

and

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Electronics/Component_Identification

 

[Andrew Cowan]

Thanks for the second link - a worth while read.

A