Looking at a project - Any Advice?

[Newbie!]

Hi Group,

Im looking at a Project to keep me out of trouble on a night <Grin>. Heres
what I would like to do:

Firstly to learn about Pic Programming and hopefully use this to:

Build a Project which will have either a Cat5 Network Connection and a Web
Browser on it, or a Serial interface to connect to a PC, This will Monitor
in 3 Rooms, the Temeratures and if there has been a Loss of Power. If the
Temperature gets to Hot or To cold, or if there was a loss of power My
project would either Ring a Mobile and a voice would say what condition we
had, or send a SMS.

I would also be able to Monitor the Temperature and Power from A PC Serial
Connection or Web Browser in real time, with graphs

I Know the basics about Electronics and am also an intermediate programmer,
I don`t have any worries about learning new things?

Any Links or advise would be appriciated

Many Thanks
Si

 

[JeffM]

learn about Pic Programming...Build a Project
Si (Newbie!)

petrus bitbyter, Don McKenzie, and Byron A Jeff have useful sites.

Getting started which PICs
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&threadm=394F0360.B818F41E%40dontronics.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3DDontronics%2BPIC%2BOR%2BPICs%26hl%3Den%26lr%3Dlang_en%26ie%3DUTF-8%26safe%3Doff%26selm%3D394F0360.B818F41E%2540dontronics.com%26rnum%3D1

Pic Programmer Opinion
http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&threadm=4001166b.3878439%40news.netaccess.co.nz&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3Dlang_en%26ie%3DUTF-8%26safe%3Doff%26group%3Dsci.electronics.basics

[PIC]: Which programmer should I build?
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&threadm=1039051963.3deeacbbe0240%40www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca&rnum=6&prev=/groups%3Fq%3D%2522Byron%2BJeff%2522%2BPIC%26num%3D100%26hl%3Den%26lr%3Dlang_en%26ie%3DUTF-8%26safe%3Doff%26filter%3D0


Note also the newsgroups in which these threads are found.