yup im a newbie... im also almost to young for that kinda stuff!!! haha

it doesnt have to be perfect, its just for fun.,.. im thinking that although i love the size of this thing, it might be a tiny bit too small for experimenting with all this stuff...

Skimask, thats exactly the same thing i was talking about.. haveing a bunch of base stations around, that all emit different pulses, and have the robot decode that, and triangulate where it is...

im hoping i can fit everything into the pic now.. im using the 18f6585 because it had the specs i wanted for another project that fell through... so mow i have it left over, and would like to use it...

heres the specs:
48 k bytes 24 k words
1024 eeprom
53 i/o 12adc

i would just like to say, you guys have all been great. i have been on some other forums (mostly for other stuff like offroading and RC stuff) and people just tell you that there is only one way to do things, and that it wouldnt be worth the effort to attempt to do certain things..