good progress

hello this is to say that I have successfully built a working prototype board, when plugged up got the motor to work and the chip handled the current and voltage fine next stage is get the chip working with James's board which is getting to be a nightmare, I used to keep my project in the locker at the back of the class room now its gone and I cant get the code to work any more, how ever once this works that is almost it, however that next thing to think about is how do I get comms back from the dish counting the open and closed signals from the reed switch???