Next, I soldered the various bits-and-pieces onto the microcontroller board and plugged that into the breadboard as shown below. Note that I hadn't plugged the PICAXE chip into the board at this stage ...

After struggling with the ‘245 for some time, [James] decided to swich out the BEAM circuit for a Picaxe microcontroller.

After struggling with the ‘245 for some time, [James] decided to swich out the BEAM circuit for a Picaxe microcontroller.