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AXE020

Failed at the first hurdle!

Hello guys,

I'm asking for advice as I've failed at the first hurdle with my Start Here Robot. I thought I would first make an LED flash using the PICAXE chip but so far I cannot connect to the chip to upload the software!

I am using a PICAXE28X1 and an AXE020 project board as bought in the lovely Start Here bundle!

Serial Pins on AXE020

XicoMBD's picture

 

On the tutorial Picaxe for dummies Fritsl says the following:

connecting an i2c device with an AXE020 project board.

I've been thinking about playing around with 

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Nothing burnt

fritsl's picture

My Yellow Drum Machine (perhaps I sould find another name? .. Anyways, it is using small motors instead of servos.

So motors are constantly fired to hit a drumstick - end then the motor returns to it´s original position via a spring mounted on it.

All the sudden nothing worked, and so I thought I had bunrt something, as the motors constantly send current back when the spring returns them. .(And we are talking thousands of stick-movements)

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