Well I have two relatively small *hope so at least* projects in mind.
I bought a decent GPS locator that connects to a serial port.  Though
I dont have a laptop or portable computer to use it with. Thought if I
could use a PIC chip to read off of the serial i/o line, provide power
to the power pin, the PIC could parse the data, then have some kind of
storage device attached (SD?) for storing the data. End goal is to
have a really small and relatively inexpensive device that can record
where I'm going (trips, parks, trails etc). The other is a RDS
decoder. I've found the schematics online and it doesnt look too
complex, just dont know how to read the symbols. Hoping I'm not trying
something too hard. I can see the GPS project being hard because of
trying to interface with a SD card, or some kind of RAM drive.

-Josh

On 5/10/07, Vitaliy <spam@maksimov.org> wrote:
> Josh,
>
> The other posters offered good advice, but the best thing you can do, is
> just dive in. It's easy if you have a specific project in mind. Just figure
> things out as you go.
>
> Of course, start small, lest you become discouraged. Read relevant books
> when you can't work on the project. I read a great number of my books, while
> sitting in the bathtub.
>
> Vitaliy
>
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