sounds interesting, I'll probably save that for later though. I have a bad tendency to get side tracked. For now I'm trying to learn to make remote controlled machines and robots, so I'll be focusing on things like different kinds of motor control, servos, steppers, h-bridges, and things related to IR and radio instruction/data/control transmission as well and computer controlled machines. That last bit could use USB, but like I said, i get side tracked too much. So when i get to computer connection I'll probably just do whatever gets the idea working the easiest and fastest, which i think would be serial, and then add stuff like USB once I know how to make at least the bare minimum of the whole machine and want to make improvements.
Back on the thread subject, I'll probably order some 18F chips besides the one I get with the junebug, and I might as well go with ones that you know work well, like I said before, I don't want to get sidetracked being choosy about stuff that doesn't matter:
18F2525
18F4550 USB
18F4620
dsPIC30F4013
For now I'll read the data sheets, since I'm going to be trying to make RCs and CNC devices, it should be well suited to controlling motors and generating and receiving various kinds of signals, and since I'm new with programming and I'm using high level languages it will need a lot of memory. by the way, when you said the dsPIC30F4013 is complex did you mean its hard to use or what?
I can't wait till i get my junebug kit! too bad I only ordered it thursday.