uhmm,
I need to quit falling asleep. I missed the part about volunteering..

I do not have a whole lot of time to dedicate to a new project as much as I want too. But I will try to find some time to play

As far as EEPROMs... FRAM seems kind of expensive. Not sure how big of one would be needed, maybe a 24FC1025 would be "OK" ? After it is all setup should be just READS....

Need to sleep on it some more