I need to bend the ear of a hardware engineer so I can figure the minimum amount of hardware I need for a project (unrelated to empeg) I have in mind. Basically, I need to be able to take a stream of characters from a serial port, do some calculations and display them on either a dotmatrix or alphanumeric LCD or VFD display.

Is there anyone out there who can help? Can I use PIC chips for this?

Patrick, are you listening and/or willing to lend a hand in terms of giving me a quick overview on what's possible, what's not and what resources (books/internet sites) are available.

Rgds,

M

P.S. The project is 'in-car' but I don't want to use the empeg. I have my reasons ;)

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