Sorry if this questions too brief or...stupid but essentially I'm on an electrical/electronic engineering course and have never had previous experience building a circuit before. I have been requested to formulate and build a circuit of my choice and decided to go for a PIC based micro controller circuit that controls three motors dependent on a keyboard input, the only problem is I have no clue where to start. So I guess my very long winded question is are there any starting guides to these type of simple circuits and/or information on specific micro controllers and such? Any help will be much appreciated and sorry if it seems basic I'm completely new to this kind of thing.