To try one of our Yenka products, you can
- access free home licences or a free 15-day demo
- watch the training videos, or the overview video on each product's page
- download the free Yenka plugin, which carries some free sample
Yenka PICs lets you write routines using simple flowcharts, and test them on-screen, before using them to program real PIC or PICAXE chips. (Programming real chips is currently only available on Windows, but Mac or Linux users can copy models onto a Windows computer to export to a real chip.)
Program chips by snapping flowchart elements together, and then click on them to edit their properties - like input status and variable values.
To insert a new command, just drop it at the right place; it snaps in automatically, with no need to delete and redraw links.
There are new commands, like 'Set Interrupt', which checks the inputs between each program step until a specified condition is satisfied.
Program real chips
Yenka PICs programs the following real chips directly:
• PICAXEs 08, 08M, 14M, 18, 18A, 18X, 28, 28A, 28X, 28X1
• PICs 16F627, 16F628, 16F84, 16F84A and 16F872.
Cyberpet project
With Revolution Education (www.picaxe.com), we converted their Cyberpet Project for use with Yenka. A PICAXE controls an electronic pet with LED 'eyes' and a piezo sounder 'voice', that reacts to touch (via a push switch) and light (via a miniature LDR).
