USB

I've put this in ideas cos I'm not sure where it fits, but the project itself is still in the ideas phase so i think it's ok :D

Basically I'm slowly assembling parts and designs for a CNC milling machine, the usual xyz stepper motors with router on top sort of thing.

What I'd like to know is if it's possible to control it from a USB-parallel converter, I've read some things about the interpreting speed not being up to it (All I have at the moment is a laptop, so no parallel port)

I'm working on a new robot and i want to control it with a usb-keyboard,

How can i connect a usb to a Picaxe 28x1 projectboard?

And how can i program it?

Thanks,

Hi everyone!

I was just wondering if anyone else has made their own PICAXE program transfer cable?

I had all the equipment to make one, 2.5mm stereo jack, colour coded wire, a usb plug and soldering equipment; so I thought i'd give it a go!

The connections for the PICAXE cable seemed very simple (having only Serial in, Serial Out and Ground) and knowing that a usb's connections were quite similar (Ground, Data+, Data- and Vcc) so I tried to match them up.

my computer does not recognize the usb cable, i cant get the program to find it, ive downloaded the proper driver software and updated the port containing the axe027 (debatable). all ports are 'not available' please halp!

I have just received my Picaxe 28X1 Starter Pack and, after an hour of trying, am still unable to install a driver for it. I am running Windows 7 Ultimate, 64 bit on an AMD Phenom II X6 1035T at 2.6 GHz (or so they say). I have tried the self-extracting, self identifying driver, I have tried the manual install. I am not getting anywhere... well, nowhere good. I have combed the rev-ed site. I assume that the driver was included on the CD I got with the starter. It seems likely that I am just missing something obvious.

Any advice will be appreciated. Thanks!  ~Allen

So a friend recently asked me if it would be possible to replace the USB jack on a set of headphones with a Mic jack so it could be plugged into and ipod. I said I wasn't sure. I know it isn't really robot related but it was an electronics question and I figured this was a good place to ask it. Thanks

I would like to create a setup I will be using for a lot of my upcoming robots. A small wireless camera that will be ultimately outputting through USB to my computer. The computer processes the video and sends commands to the robot via RF. I guess the serial connection will be no more than 1900 bds. How can I coordinate RF and image-processing in a single program for autonomous navigation/other tasks (I can almost hear GroG saying "MyRobotLab" ;)?

i need to know the pin configurations of usb,serial,and parallel ports of a computer.....someone make me understand about the micro processor DDR,registor,address,etc evrythig related to a micro processor..

I have an Arduino, with a Sharp IR sensor connected to it, and code that basically says:

If analog value from Sharp > certain value, turn LED on.

else, turn LED off.

When I plug my Arduino into my computer, and power it via USB, this works perfectly.

However, when I power it by batteries (4 x AAA), the LED is always on, even when there is nothing near the Sharp at all. Can anyone give an explanation of why this happens, or a solution to this problem?

Hello all. I was wondering if anybody could tell me how i could connect to my robot? I have built everything, and downloaded the axepad for the intel based mac as well as the usb driver, when i restarted my computer and went to my network under system preferences, the computer recognized the usb as some sort of modem

it gave me the following configuration options.

Telephone number:

Account number:

Password:

 

Ok, got to the point where it's time to start coding and I got power to everything that needed it and started installing the drivers needed for the Picaxe programmer cable. Well to no avail. If anybody has an idea a walkthrough it would be appreciated.

 

Mech 

Anyone have experience with controlling a parallel (8 or more lines) output on a Mac (OS X)? I want to control my CNC machine with a parallel interface but Macs don't have parallel ports anymore. I need to find a suitable replacement, but a serial port/MCU would drastically complicate things. Please help! What hardware should I get?

Hi, new to these forums and hoping someone can help me out!

I'm building a robot submarine (ROV) for fun on a pretty tight budget. The robot will have an on-board PC (in the form of a micro-ATX or nano-ATX motherboard) and will be controlled down a tether wire.

Hi,

I run the picaxe programming editor on windows XP in a virtual machine (parallels desktop) on my OS X laptop. The serial connection to the picaxe 28x1 works fine when I'm just communicating using hyperterm or when the picaxe sends debug info.

When I want to upload a program to the chip, it usually takes 4 or 5 tries to get it right. The larger the program, the more it fails to load.

So i decided to use the command line compiler for mac OS X. Now the uploads are very stable only a new problem appeared.