Quote Originally Posted by cleas001 View Post
yes ive got basic knowledge of programming and ive got all that equuipment avialiable should i need it
Quote Originally Posted by cleas001 View Post
you mention about the serial port? is this to conect to computer? - i do not wish to conect my device to a computer- is there a way in which the PIC an process the information to display on the LCD - withouht having to go through a serial port?
These 2 statements seem to conflict.
How much MCU programming have you done? Not Windows, not Visual Basic, actual MCU programming, at the binary/hex level?
Reason I ask is that if you are somewhat knowledgable in this area, then you would know that a fair share of PICs out there have built in UART specifically for external serial access, and those that don't are able to obtain external serial access by means of software emulation through PicBasicPro (or other compilers out there).