I ordered lots of stuff to build Yellow Drum Machine II, and I cannot wait for it to arrive. I cannot wait for it to arrive. I cannot wait for it to arrive. I cannot wait for it to arrive. It should arrive any day now. From Solarbotics and Picaxe.
Oh, I know the feeling 
Oh, I know the feeling I’ve been getting a bunch of fun packages in the mail lately. And my wallet is crying but my soldering iron is excited.
Oh no, frits! Now you made
Oh no, frits! Now you made me want to order lots of stuff too! Getting harder to resist ordering CMUCam3… yummie I want that board 
- Jimmy
Same here, dude.
A 28x projectboard
a 4-chip board (with all 4 chips)
and extra 08m project board
a couple more servos
a SRF05
and a bunch of other crap
…3 Days now and no "Your order has been shipped", yet
Arrggg
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"a 4-chip board (with all 4
"a 4-chip board (with all 4 chips)" -what on earth is that?
Apart form this, it sounds like a really, really nice pack, you will be a happy boy!!
Where did you order from? I
Where did you order from? I ordered my SRF05 from SuperDroidRobots and was frustrated by the same thing, no shipment notice, no tracking number, but fortunately the order did arrive when it was supposed to, so I guess they did ship it the day I ordered, they just didn’t send an email.
I know…
I feel for you dude I love ordering stuff online Its like christmas at random (because by the time they arive you forget that you went broke buying them ~Matt
The 4 chip board…
Here you go, dude.
http://world-educational-services.net/cart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=88&products_id=317
It’s a pretty good deal.
08m
18x
28x
40
a Darlington
a Motor driver
an Eprom
and a board for 45 bucks
I am just using mine for parts, I will use the picaxes on different boards, and reuse all the connectors and pin headers and stuff.
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Hey Cow…
I get most of my stuff here:
http://www.world-educational-services.net/cart/
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Man, that does sound like a
Man, that does sound like a good package. Especially for someone like me who wants to try out Picaxe and see what the various models are like. I’ve got an idea for a really small robot that would require a small board, and I was curious whether the 08 would be able to handle what I want to do. With that kit, I can try it, and if it turns out I need more, I can just stick the next bigger chip in and try again. Awesome, thanks for the link.
(The 08 will not be able to
(The 08 will not be able to handle it)
This is an example where this was the most I could force into one, and I had to really twist the code, count bytes used for different ways of doing the same thing, here is a 08 filled up, just to give you an idea:
high 0,1,2,4
main:
serin 3, T2400, b0
select case b0
case “B”
let pins = %00010010
case “C”
let pins = %00010000
case "A"
let pins = %00000010
case "F"
let pins = %00010001
case "D"
let pins = %00000110
case "H"
let pins = %00000101
case "G"
let pins = %00000100
case "I"
let pins = %00000001
else 'Case “S” for "Stop"
let pins = %00000000
endselect
goto main
’ There you go - total drive-control in every way from serial input…in 104 bytes out of 128 possible with Picaxe8… 24 bytes left 
However - the really cool part about it, what makes up for the lack of memory, is that it still has got a huge library to draw on; Complete instruction-set - so you can use it to… say… read temperature, control servo, convert i2c to serial, count… anything (one thing at a time) - all in same little next-to-free chip, that needs next to nothing apart from some volts to be programmed and run. So you can custom the little chip to do something that normally would take a circuit, take it out, make another, place some in your circuit…
But “a complete robot”, boy, you will hate the lack of memory.
/ Fritsl
Hehe, wow, that IS limited.
Hehe, wow, that IS limited. My robot wouldn’t be too complicated. I want to build a small robot with two GM10s for motion and a micro servo. The robot would live in a glass jar on a shelf. When humans come into the room, it detects them with some sort of sensor, turns towards them, and activates the servo to tap on the glass sadly, asking to be let out. So if the 08 still has built-in servo control, maybe it would be doable, but definitely tight. But maybe the next size up of Picaxe would be a little more comfortable But I’d want it to be a pretty small robot, so I’d have to see how small you can make the Picaxe circuit on a perforated PCB.
" The robot would live in a
" The robot would live in a …" HAHAA - That IS a cool idea for a robot!!
LOL!
No - 08 would not do it
I had an ide of a robot that was building stuff, ordering little bricks in nice patterns, setting them on top of each other, really nice, slow, sincerely and carefully… Just so I could come home and make a mess out of it, so it would have to start all over
/ Fritsl
The 08m is bigger… 256 bytes
Hey guys be sure you are looking at the 08M… the 08 is 128 bytes but the 08m is 256. I think it is a dollar or 2 more…
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Uh yeah - QUITE good point!!
Uh yeah - QUITE good point!! I just used the ones pre-fitted on the board with the motor-driver.
Very good point, thanks!
/ Fritsl
lol… but then again, it
lol… but then again, it sure is not a lot of space ;D
/ Fritsl
Haha, I love that idea too.
Haha, I love that idea too. It seems you and I both have a little bit of a sadistic streak when it comes to robots
Dan
Soldering emotions is fun -
Soldering emotions is fun - and I think it is interesting if it is posible to make people feel sorry for a robot!
That might be a good challenge, actually; Make a robot that people feel sorry for… interesting!
/ Fritsl
I orderd a bunch of stuff
I orderd a bunch of stuff off of world-education-services and I havn’t recived any word of them reciving my order or shipping it, other than my paypal being deducted 
I opend a paypal dispute and hopefully will get a refund
I don’t sugest shopping with them.
Hey, that sounds bad!You
Hey, that sounds bad!
You should post them as a link and give them hell / warn people. (Front page -> post link)
/ Fritsl