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UNLEASH THE POWER OF THE PICAXE!
The PICAXE is a powerful and easy-to-use processor, capable of highly sophisticated projects, without the complexities and high costs of alternative chips. Beginners can produce tangible results within minutes, and experienced users can achieve truly professional results. Programming and Customizing the PICAXE Microcontroller, Second Edition, has been fully updated for the latest hardware and software upgrades, and shows you, step by step, how to take full advantage of all the capabilities of the PICAXE and build your own control projects.
This practical guide is packed with helpful illustrations, detailed examples, and do-it-yourself experiments. Perfect for beginners and students, the book also contains advanced information for more experienced programmers, hobbyists, manufacturers, and research institutions.
Programming and Customizing the PICAXE Microcontroller, Second Edition, covers:
- PICAXE architecture
- The latest chips, including M2, M, X, XI, and X2 series
- Windows, Mac, and UNIX platforms
- Interfacing and input/output techniques
- BASIC programming and compilers
- PICAXE arithmetic and data conversion
- Dozens of ready-to-run projects
- Useful routines to plug into your own designs
Hands-on projects include:
- LED and LCO display control
- Motor control
- Water detector
- Bipolar transistor output driver
- Interfacing MOSFETs to a PICAXE
- Radio-control servo motor
- Infrared wireless links
- Telephone intercom
- Dual-temperature display
- Radio frequency identification (RFID) reader display
- Memory and I/O expansion
- Real-time clock/calendar
- Data logger
- Robotic components
- Many more
From the Back Cover
- Easy enough for beginners, thorough enough for pros
- Packed with intriguing illustrated examples and fun-to-build projects
- Loads of help with programming and elementary electronics
- Directions to Website with editor, development tools, newest commands, and capabilities
Get started with the wonder chip -- PICAXE, the inexpensive little chip that COULD!!
Here's everything you need to harness the power of PICAXE, the inexpensive yet versatile chip that's taken the electronics community by storm. This beginner-friendly guide from IT pro and PICAXE expert David Lincoln shows you just what Revolution Education's PICAXE can do -- and helps you make it do it! Packed with ready-to-build projects for all the flavors of PICAXE, the guide provides step-by-step help that's ideal for those just starting out with microcontrollers but also takes more experienced programmers where they need to go fast. Using plenty of examples, Programming and Customizing the PICAXE Microcontroller clarifies this versatile chip's basics and coaches you through sophisticated applications. Even programming neophytes will easily follow the clearly illustrated, learn-as-you-go instructions. Yet experienced programmers who want to get a project up and running quickly will find the details they need in the author's comprehensive coverage of the PICAXE's more advanced components and capabilities.
Part of the popular TAB Electronics series, Programming and Customizing the PICAXE Microcontroller features:
- Easy-to-understand explanations of the PICAXE system and subsystems, with plenty of examples and experiments
- BASIC routines and techniques to jumpstart your projects
- Dozens of ready-to-try projects, plus useful routines to plug into your own designs
- Projects for PICAXE-08, -08M, -18A, -18X, and -28X that can be easily ported to all PICAXE chips.
- Confusion-erasing explanations of input and output interfacing techniques
- Hardware –- software interfacing help
- Newcomer-friendly intros to electronics and Boolean algebra
- Directions to Revolution’s Website with a complete editor, development environment, and new releases -- all the tools and source code you need to develop applications. Go to www.lincsoft.com for more information and projects associated with this book.
Whether you're designing for fun or adding intelligence to products for a paycheck, Programming and Customizing the PICAXE Microcontroller is the way to ride if you want to glide—the route to choose if you want to cruise!
DOZENS OF PROJECTS
- LCD and LED Display Control
- Motor Control
- Infrared Remote Control
- Intercom from Ordinary Phones
- Temperature Control
- Time Control
- Data Logger
- Robotic Components
- Much More
ON THE WEBSITE
- Programming Editor
- Development System
- Latest Releases
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As an experienced electronics engineer, I had great hopes for this book. It claims to be "easy enough for beginners, thorough enough for pros". It is the second part of this statement that I disagree with. There are many books on the PIC microcontroller, some good and some awful. Whilst I think that this book is very good for the beginner to learn from, the projects it contains do not provide the sort of information or challenge to make it very useful for an experienced engineer. To finally bury this book as far as it's usefulness is concerned, it has the most useless index that I have ever come across. The index in a text book is of very great importance - the one in this book is dire. Quite how McGraw Hill managed to make such a mess of such a simple thing is beyond belief.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Picaxe
13 Nov 2005
Format:Paperback
As a fan of David's earlier Picaxe booklets, I see his new book as being a great aid when wrestling with applications for these dirt cheap microcontroller darlings. The book works at many levels, since with beginner, intermediate, & experienced sections it should appeal to schools as well as being a good reference for old hands, hobbyists and -gasp- even engineers.
Wearing my photo journalist's hat & given the A1 technology now available, at least a few PICTURES would have been appreciated, since layout circuits are just simple line drawings akin to those in his earlier "Mechatronics" booklets. Perhaps things more in the style of the Rev.Ed .pdfs would have better caught the eye? This is naturally both an initial marketing AND educational end user issue- kids steaming in classrooms during Australian heatwaves need stimulating.
I'd personally have whipped up a bit of early can do enthusiasm as well (photos of pre teens robots, "girls can do anything" smart traffic lights,old codgers with balloon wireless weather telemetry etc -all with "it works" smiles), but then that's -ahem- my own style!
Since many texts now come with a back cover CD, or are perhaps web linked for copy & paste downloads, users will be faced with -argh!- raw code entry as neither are included. Although of course this will be educational,longer programs (such as David's great phone exchange) really need more productive linking, as typos will surely otherwise arise. I well recall pages of games code listings in early 1980s computer mags (VIC-20, Spectrum etc)that lead to keyboard angst & weary eyes...
All up I'd say every electronics class, school and library should have a copy. Perhaps the biggest compliment I can make is that this book is one I should have perhaps rustled up myself!
Stan. SWAN ( author of numerous "Silicon Chip" Picaxe articles 2003-5)
Wearing my photo journalist's hat & given the A1 technology now available, at least a few PICTURES would have been appreciated, since layout circuits are just simple line drawings akin to those in his earlier "Mechatronics" booklets. Perhaps things more in the style of the Rev.Ed .pdfs would have better caught the eye? This is naturally both an initial marketing AND educational end user issue- kids steaming in classrooms during Australian heatwaves need stimulating.
I'd personally have whipped up a bit of early can do enthusiasm as well (photos of pre teens robots, "girls can do anything" smart traffic lights,old codgers with balloon wireless weather telemetry etc -all with "it works" smiles), but then that's -ahem- my own style!
Since many texts now come with a back cover CD, or are perhaps web linked for copy & paste downloads, users will be faced with -argh!- raw code entry as neither are included. Although of course this will be educational,longer programs (such as David's great phone exchange) really need more productive linking, as typos will surely otherwise arise. I well recall pages of games code listings in early 1980s computer mags (VIC-20, Spectrum etc)that lead to keyboard angst & weary eyes...
All up I'd say every electronics class, school and library should have a copy. Perhaps the biggest compliment I can make is that this book is one I should have perhaps rustled up myself!
Stan. SWAN ( author of numerous "Silicon Chip" Picaxe articles 2003-5)
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
You proably don't need to but this book
4 July 2006
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I am new to the PICAXE so I was looking for all the information I could find. The [...] website has quite a bit but I felt like I needed more. I saw the book advertised with glowing reviews and ordered a copy at once. When the book came, I had gotten pretty familiar with the information on the web site and was looking for something more in depth. After looking at the book for quite some time, I still haven't found anything of use that can't be gotten from the web site. Actually, whenever I need information, I go to the web site instead of loking at the book. The picaxe user forum is also helpful. There may soon be other books on the PICAXE and I hope the authors do a better job than was done here.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A rare gem packed with wide range of info and techniques
1 Mar 2011
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I am glad that I had this book with me while learning the PICAXE 18M2. My main interest was the serial communication and basic I/O processing and the book covers them nicely. Yes, the manufacturer's website has the most up-to-date info about the chips. But this books does wonder getting me into PICAXE quickly and smoothly. The section on interfacing with various electornics is a plus. And the advanced experiments will give us hobbyists valuable ideas. Highly recommended.
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