On 1/30/07, John Dammeyer wrote: > > In essence the board has a 2 line LCD display, 34 buttons, quadrature encode > knob, 1 analog input and a 3 Amp 55V micro-stepper motor driver. Schematics > and gerbers will also be published. However, people who want to modify it > or upgrade it would have to buy the Microchip C so I'm just looking for a > lower cost alternative. > Why? MPLAB C18 student version is free. Unless the code space is a problem, it is free and people can use it to modify your code. Microchip does not limit the usage of the student version. http://www.microchip.com/c18 Regards, Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist