Quote Originally Posted by manwolf View Post

p.s. I decided on a PIC16F887 to start with it has just about everything you can cram into a chip.
#1 reason most PIC books use the PIC16F84, old Grandpa has near nothing to get in the way of a newbie's success.
Patrick Pending, I am into this 2 years this month, still fumbling and learning, still putting in "temporary blinky code" in my projects.