Hi my name is Daniel Jircik . I am a lighting designer and manufacturer and am interested in using pics for automated lighting control. This would be my first microcontroller endeavor, (Old world craftsman goes kicking and screaming into the future) Learned how to do boards with line tape and acetate, and your right when it turns green it don't work no more. Anyway, Kelly Kohls (www.qsl.net/n5tle/ ) has designed a 16 ch. PIC based demux that I would like to try. What I really need is 8 channels demux and 2 axis of dc motor control, Parralaxs' MOTO MIND would work as far as my current requirements. 24VDC @.75 amps. any suggestions and or guidance, have been quietly digetsing this engaging string for a few weeks now . . .