Hey everyone thanks for you input so far. Here is a link to an evolving documentation of what I am doing: http://www.vi2.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=93 It describes my project in pretty good detail, and you can see what I am trying to do with the PIC. My major question I'm trying to solve right now is which language to program with. Second question would be getting some help with looking over the parts list for designing my projects. I want to make sure I have all the parts and everything right. Appreciate everyone's input! Aaron -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.