Gustaf, Your post about the metal tool protectant was fascinating, you clearly have something to offer us. Hopefully we can offer you something as well. I've been making my living programming PICs for 9 years and some of this stuff is over my head, too so don't feel bad. Start simple, make something useful. I started this business making DC power supplies and buzzers with 709 op amps. There is nothing wrong with dropping C and ASM and using a Basic Stamp or a J stamp to do something useful with less brain-pain. Yes clearly the mind is not a limitless resource, and even if it was, time is not a limitless resource. -- Lawrence Lile "Gustaf J. Barkstrom" Sent by: pic microcontroller discussion list 02/29/2004 01:07 PM Please respond to pic microcontroller discussion list To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU cc: Subject: [OT:] read-only mode I am starting a class this week, so I will be in read-only mode on the piclist for the next few weeks. Besides, this list is CLEARLY WAY OVER MY HEAD. I have LOADS of archive reading to do. I'm not throwing in the towel (yet) but I hate pointing out publicly how stupid I am. Time for me to reconsider my activities, and see if I'm really up for the journey into electronics I've been fantasizing about. The mind is NOT a limitless resource, as some would have us believe. I will never tell my children "you can do anything" because that's just not true. :) See you soon. Gustaf -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu