Clayton Smith wrote:

>recently I have picked up a slight interest in looking into
>programming for hardware or at least the concept of being able to
>program a USB/LCD device etc.
>
You may be interested in this.  I just bookmarked it recently:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/piklab/?branch_id=59135&release_id=226002

I have ordered one of these USB devices to play with, but haven't 
received it yet, so no comments yet:
http://www.ti-estore.com/

Maybe there's a TC-LUG meeting topic in here somewhere???

Kraig