Blog Archive for August 17, 2013

PICAXE 7 Segment LED Counter

August 17, 2013

You can drive a 7 segment LED from the PICAXE by making use of the CMOS 4026 Decade Counter. See http://drumcoder.co.uk/blog/2013/aug/12/7-segment-counting/ for how to set this up for a digit or two.

Next, connect an output from the PICAXE (I used C.4) to the clock input on the decade …

Simple PICAXE Input

August 17, 2013

We've used outputs from the PICAXE (PICAXE on Ubuntu) to flash LEDs. Now it's time to read an input.

Here we're going to add a potentiometer, which will vary the voltage on one of the PICAXE input pins. We'll use the value derived from this voltage to control …