this is made to help all the newbies who come to this site and jump into the "start here"project. -and by doung that, hopefully makes the amount of "HELP!! its says "hardware not found""-forum topics! :)
many of these newbies think: they can look at the walktrough's pictures, build their robot and copy-paste the program-code into the editor to then pres "F5" = ROBOT! :D
but then it says.. "ERROR! hardware not found!" ..because they DIDN'T READ THE MANUAL!!!
(remember to read the manual, part 1, 2 and 3)
if you are really lost in the editor here is how to find the manuals:
BTW; Why the fck have they not made it auto-change into the right mode? (Or at least provide the option)
Often, when I work on 2 different bots at the same time, I have to swap and swap, it is so irritating! 2 computers then? Yes, but then if I want to copy-paste all the time…
The freaking editor knows that this is wrong, and knows how to set it right… Well… then do it already, you editor!
I was just being stupid. I I was just being stupid. I know this is a basic troubleshooting task but Im sure it will help someone. Worst case we have something to link to when people ask instead of having to repeat what has been said many times over. A lot of people refuse to read when they can just ask someone.
Well, if the picaxe editor had an auto detect we wouldn’t be having this discussion!!
Anyway, this is why we should have a posting standard so that we don’t get the Oohhhh help me with this obvious and trivial question that if I had only looked in the manual, I wouldn’t be asking such an inane question…
("…task but Im sure it will help someone. Worst case we have something to link to when people ask instead of having to repeat what has been said many times over. A lot of people refuse to read when they can just ask someone!")
