Quote Originally Posted by Snap View Post
Thank you for your answer I see I have a lot more work to do before I hammer out the details. I will post this when I get it going. As always I can't believe the speed and quality of help in this forum. Thanks again
Snap
You know, with a PIC, an LCD, a couple of push buttons, and a few IR LEDs and IR detectors, you can easily make a slot car track timer and wouldn't even need a PC. There's probably enough on chip eeprom to store several races (if that's one of your goals), then you could download the data to a PC later on thru a serial port.