I have been bitten hard by the PIC bug. And since there is no better way to learn than by doing - I want to build a PIC based barcode decoder for the church library. That way they get a barcode scanner to help them out, I get to tell my wife I am doing this for a good cause and have a blast doing it. So before I have to re-invent the wheel - is there anywhere that I can look that has some tutorial/code/help/information or anything that will help me get pointed in the right direction... BTW - I do VB development for a living so the programming I understand, just the algorithms sometime are hard to figure out. Syd