Picaxe under Linux
This provides some basic information on how to build and download programs for the picaxe microcontrollers under the Linux operating system.Picaxe provide simple command line compilers/downloaders one for each chip type.
The Picaxe Basic programs can be edited with any text editor or IDE of which there are a lot of options under Linux. Picaxe provides a syntax description file for the Kate editor which helps when editing the programs.
Usage
Edit the program with the text editor and then in a terminal window enter a suitable command to compile and download the program to the Picaxe. An example for the Picaxe 28x2 is:picaxe28x2 file.bas
This will compile the program and download over the /dev/ttyUSB0 serial port.The command line tools take various options. Using the "-h" flag with the command will list those options.