A very basic picaxe 28 project board question. To try out the led flasher example in the Picaxe manual, would this work?
All the points below relate to 'F' connection in the picture.
connect a jumper from the hole at the edge of the projectboard next to output pin 4 (via darlington driver) to breadboard
connect a resistor and -ve of led from the above point in breadboard
connect +ve of led to +strip on breadboard
connect jumper from +ve in breadboard to V hole
Huh?To me it seams this is
Huh?
To me it seams this is one big “what?”… Or perhaps there is something I do not understand?
To try out the led flasher example in the Picaxe manual, would this work?
Which manual? Which example? What does it look like?
All the points below relate to ‘F’ connection in the picture.
connect a jumper from the hole at the edge of the projectboard next to output pin 4 (via darlington driver) to breadboard
Huh? “the hole at the edge of the projectboard next to output pin 4” - as I understand you, that is Ground, and is not via the Darlington??
connect a resistor and -ve of led from the above point in breadboard
Huh? What on earth is “-ve”? V is +… and - is G 
connect +ve of led to +strip on breadboard
connect jumper from +ve in breadboard to V hole
Sorry… you will have to include some visuals or something… Or perhaps ask more like “What is supposed to be connected to what in order to…” and then yourself figure out - in your own setup - where that is
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It’s Friday and I can’t
It’s Friday and I can’t follow 
Do you have a pic of the breadboard? I’m assuming you want a picaxe chip to make an LED flash, if so why use the darlington driver too? All you need is a resistor, picaxe chip, battery, led and some wire.
If you want to use the project board you can connect a wire from the ground pin of the LED to a ground pin on the board. Then connect the positive pin on the LED to the output next to the darlington driver (or where it is on the picture in section E). No need for a breadboard unless you want it to work without soldering or holding the LED in place.
Well - I already made a
Well - I already made a complete overview of the board, the page where you found the picture:
28 pin Project Board (AXE020), Picaxe for dummies
Does that not answer that question?
If not, please draw a circle on the picture of the board on which holes you have doubt, and upload it, to make it easier to understand - thanks.
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You can connect it without
You can connect it without solder but it won’t be permanent. You may have to jiggle it to get a good connection. If you sodler it, it will be more permanent, but it shoudl light. Holding it in place without sodler may require you to jiggle it a bit to complete the circuit. That’s how I did it my first time since I didn’t want to solder…
"How do I connect the
"How do I connect the positive of the LED to pin 4? Do I solder it to pin 4 in F? That can’t be right! :)"
If you bought the starter-pack, they should have included 2-3 grey flat ribbon cables with connectors and lots of wires… These wires can be used. In the wire there is both access to G’s, V’s and all the in-sand outs.
You can find illustrations of the cables, and what goes to what in the manual for the board.
If your supplier did not include the ribbon cables, perhaps you should ask them?
Otherwise, all the sockets are standard, and so are all the holes. In your case, as I read it, you should not need “the holes”. However - if you do, also these are in standard distance etc - so basicly every connector your electronics supplier will sell you will do.
You can get both pins, male & female for all of it - 1, 2, 3… 32 and up number of legs or holes… And there are tons of ways to do it - as said, it is all standard in distance and length etc. I have seen some people here also write about how they rip old PC’s to get (extra) connectors.
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See here how I use the
See here how I use the ribbon, stribbed down wires etc… (Please note that I turned the cable around so it goes over the board instead of away from - to save space)
- and here how I use another (Red) connector to hook up to 2 inputs:
Pictures from http://picasaweb.google.com/fritslyneborg/WallRacers
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You can take the signal /
You can take the signal / voltage - whatever the word is - straight from the IC. But why? Anyway, yes, it is just not good at driving anything stronger than a LED… or as a signal to someting (cannot draw many amp, or whatever the term is :D)
Anyway - this starts to sound like an electronics-question, and I do not have a clue there
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