Cactusface
- Jul 1, 2010
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Hi Folks,
I am new here, look my first post. Just a few general bits. Some years ago I took up PIC programing, mostly with Practical electronics Mag, used Tasm assembler, and some strange parallel programmer. But has the chips got better and more complicated I lost the will to live and gave up....
Spent some years model building, but last year I discovered PicAxe micro controllers, and now I'm back into programing and electronics in general. It's so easy! true their not as fast as normal Pic's. But it does take a lot of the complicated stuff out. The basic programming language is easy but has many powerful commands. The programming kit is just a serial/USB cable, a stereo socket and two R's... All programming software is free, inc simulator, wizards, etc...
My first project was a PicTestBed to test both hardware and code (the idea was to make adaptors for the different sized PIC's but not got around to it yet!!)! I am now on my second BuggyBot this uses UltraSonics to see where it's going and avoid hitting things, it even looks left and right and goes for the clearest run.
For those interested here's a picture and some code, hope to add more of this to the website soon. Comments and rude remarks welcome..
Regards
Mel aka Cactusface
I am new here, look my first post. Just a few general bits. Some years ago I took up PIC programing, mostly with Practical electronics Mag, used Tasm assembler, and some strange parallel programmer. But has the chips got better and more complicated I lost the will to live and gave up....
Spent some years model building, but last year I discovered PicAxe micro controllers, and now I'm back into programing and electronics in general. It's so easy! true their not as fast as normal Pic's. But it does take a lot of the complicated stuff out. The basic programming language is easy but has many powerful commands. The programming kit is just a serial/USB cable, a stereo socket and two R's... All programming software is free, inc simulator, wizards, etc...
My first project was a PicTestBed to test both hardware and code (the idea was to make adaptors for the different sized PIC's but not got around to it yet!!)! I am now on my second BuggyBot this uses UltraSonics to see where it's going and avoid hitting things, it even looks left and right and goes for the clearest run.
For those interested here's a picture and some code, hope to add more of this to the website soon. Comments and rude remarks welcome..
Regards
Mel aka Cactusface