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ok,

I just got a new picaxe 28x1 for christmas. I was trying it out and the pins don't seem to be working.

For example:

I connected a led to output pin 3 and ground and uploaded the code

main:

high 3

pause 5000

low 3

pause 5000

goto main

For some reason this code doesn't seem to do anything as the led just stays on constantly. and, yes I did wire the anode and cathode the right way

Is there something wrong with my chip, or am I just doing something incredibly obvious and dumb? 

I was looking a while back for people that had hacked their graduation cap. I didn't find any links as to how to do it, but one professor actually designed a circuit board to replace the cardboard with some ultra-bright LEDs.

angered his fellow professors something fierce, but everyone else loved it.

link to the story 

need some bright leds?

Look here:

IKEA LEDS

10 bright leds for $3.90 (or 1,99 euros)

Can you make a 3d LED cube with an Picaxe 28x1.  Like a 3x3x3 or bigger.  It something second I would love to do.  Robot is the first thing I want to do but learning more about LED and wanted to know if it is possible to do something like this.  I can't wait till I place my order in soon to get this and share my project with everyone.

i think this little project would be good for your programming and electronics.

it looks like a lot of fun.