Buzby
Senior Member
Prompted by the current thread about web-enabled ESP things, I revisited the PICAXE Net Server. ( https://www.picaxestore.com/net002 ). I have a couple of these, bought as scrap for £1.20 each, and both work fine, but I've not done anything with them.
It was something relating to TC/PIP networks and PIC micros that first introduced me to PICAXE many years ago. The company I worked for had a project that needed TC/PIP on a PIC, and somehow Rev-Ed got involved. Clive helped me a lot, and gave me a few PICAXE chips to play with. That was my start with PICAXE. ( The project itself was a total failure, but not because of PICAXE, there were other forces at play. )
Move on to today, and the proliferation of tiny 'network savvy' micros, makes me wonder if Rev-Ed have missed a trick.
The PNS was an early incarnation of what the ESP-type thingies are today. ( I've got a couple of ESP-thingies, each with a tiny OLED screen and WiFi, progammable like an A*****, over the air. These things cost me pennies. )
But it seems like the web-enabled PICAXE is not just dead, it's been buried as well. ( What happened to the NetServer Wizard that was in PE4.1.16 and later ? )
I'd really like to see something like the AXE201, but with added WiFi. It's things like this that kids are cutting their teeth on nowadays.
Well, thats my rant over,
Cheers,
Buzby
It was something relating to TC/PIP networks and PIC micros that first introduced me to PICAXE many years ago. The company I worked for had a project that needed TC/PIP on a PIC, and somehow Rev-Ed got involved. Clive helped me a lot, and gave me a few PICAXE chips to play with. That was my start with PICAXE. ( The project itself was a total failure, but not because of PICAXE, there were other forces at play. )
Move on to today, and the proliferation of tiny 'network savvy' micros, makes me wonder if Rev-Ed have missed a trick.
The PNS was an early incarnation of what the ESP-type thingies are today. ( I've got a couple of ESP-thingies, each with a tiny OLED screen and WiFi, progammable like an A*****, over the air. These things cost me pennies. )
But it seems like the web-enabled PICAXE is not just dead, it's been buried as well. ( What happened to the NetServer Wizard that was in PE4.1.16 and later ? )
I'd really like to see something like the AXE201, but with added WiFi. It's things like this that kids are cutting their teeth on nowadays.
Well, thats my rant over,
Cheers,
Buzby