I am looking for a small snippit of code to show me how I could send a byte or two from Virtual Basic out to my picaxe. I am planning on using my Picaxe sync cable as the serial port and I can find the com port number. Would anyone be so kind as to give me a hand?
P.S. I am asking this for another guy.
Chris
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Other admins, delete if you want...I just felt I had to post this as I was in and out of the convo.....
There is a C# project about
There is a C# project about it you can look at. It should be easily translated to VB.NET.
If using VB is not a firm
If using VB is not a firm requirement, I’ve been having good success using RobotBASIC to communicate back and forth with a PICAXE 20X2 project. RobotBASIC is a free download from http://www.robotbasic.org/. There is a whole section of the help file dedicated to serial comms and there are examples at the website showing code for Basic Stamps and Propeller.
Here is a simple program I use to send strings back and forth over COM 4. The first few lines are to configure the port and setup a handshake, and then the code just toggles between receive and send:
CommPort = 4
setcommport CommPort,br9600,8,pNone,sbOne,fcNone
ClearSerBuffer
Print "Terminal"
shake:
thisChar = “R”
serout thisChar
delay 20
SerIn s
if s <> “R” then goto shake
main:
checkserbuffer n
if n>=1
delay 1000
SerIn s
print s
else
goto main
endif
input “?”, u
for i=1 to length(u)
thisChar = char(GetStrByte(u,i))
serout thisChar
delay 10
next
goto main
