[miketwalker]

I think PICs are the best way to go. As was alread said, BASIC stamps are a pain in the butt when doing complex things. However, one thing I've noticed with the chip is that it's not very good with handling complex math operations, but if you make header files to do the math... you can get around that. BASIC has many of those trig functions and things built in however... that's the only plus I can think of though with BASIC... so yea, just go with PIC.