Project

I have decided that I need to make something. I have all this junk that is doing nothing but collect dust. I am looking for ideas. I have about 4 remote control cars and tons of junk that can be reused to make a device or a another toy. I thougth about making an alterain vehicle, but figured that there might be something more fun to build. I thought about making a personalized computer case for my desktop, but then got too lazy to actually make it. I also thought about making a few programs for my dad. A few of the programs I thought about making one that linked his address book to all the invoices on his computer aranged by customer and the other one does load calculations. A load calculation takes almost every characteristic about a room and adds all the rooms to a house and tells you what size a/c unit is needed and what size vent to put in the room. There are many load calculation programs out there, but the ones that I have seen have WAY too many bugs. The one that dad currently uses "forgets" rooms every now and again. (Okay, bear with me I am going to start using computer talk) It is based off of Microsoft Acess. What happens is that each house is saved in a Access spreadsheet file and for some reason the last room is moved down to row 155 or so. So, what you do is open up the Access file and move the data back to where it is supposed to be. Any way, there is a book called the "manual J". The manual is only about 600 pages long with a size 8 font. What I would like to do, is use the manual that the programmer put into the computer. The problem is that I have yet to learn to program enough with c++ to access the data in a spreadsheet. It would also help if I could make a GUI to go with the program, but that would slow it down alot. Anyway, more later. It is WAY past bed time. Later