[RyanCahoon]

Since the IFI Robot Controller is pretty much a custom design, you have to use software that's designed to interface with it. That leaves you with a choice of EasyC, making your own program to interface with the serial port in MPLAB, or using the ROBOTC product that was released this year (I'm not sure if there's any premade solutions like EasyC or if you would still have to make your own). If you want to pursue creating your own control over serial console, take a look at Kevin Watson's camera code from 2007 (get the "bells and whistles" version); it has a demonstration of a simple menu-based console.

--Ryan