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Plugs into the accessory port of the bigtrak Jr, and lights up when you tell the Big Trak Jr to output
This is my very quick hack for my brand new Big Trak Jr. The Big Trak Jr could be an awesome platform for hacking. At $24.99 +pp from thinkgeek, you can't go … Read more
Turns on and off whatever you connect to it
There are already some great projects on the internet about hacking home automation systems, but what I wanted to do was to control my plugs creatively. Thats why … Read more
Cheap 4WD off road chassis for your robot
The chassis of the "Rebound" is perfect for small off road robots. The PCB has a radio receiver and dual "H" bridge. This walkthrough shows you how to make the … Read more

Messing with the Picaxe editor help menu

rik's picture

When researching the exact connections on my 28x1 projectboard, I scowered my directory C:\Program Files\Programming Editor\datasheets\ and found user.txt.

And guess what? It lets you change the help menu in your editor.

picaxe_userhelp_rtfm.gif

That fourth option was not there before! All that was needed was one extra line in the textfile:
PCB hackers need to Read this F*****g Manual now!=c:\Program Files\Programming Editor\datasheets\axe001_pcb.pdf

messing with the motor outs (A and B)

maneuver's picture

Just a thought:

(lets call the four motor outputs A1, A2, B1 and B2)

What would happened if I connected a GM10 (with the original spring still attached) between B2 and A2? Like in the illustration below

motorhead.jpg

I was hoping to achieve the following:

Wanders around taking photos of interesting things
Using a
I've hacked a cheap camera and mounted on a pan / tilt neck assembly. Pictomatix MkII only has 64Mb of non upgradeable camera memory so unfortunately he can only … Read more

Robot

slick's picture

Im off to buy An RC car to create a robot first basic things (pre defined movement) then logic

 

Im will use an arduino Duemilanove