I have done some scripting in the Processing environment, so the arduino system seems the most "comfortable" to me so far. I'm not exactly sure how I will go about controlling the different circuits via the arduino microprocessor, but I guess that's where all the fun comes in. If you have any suggestions, ie. how to program joystick movement from a computer to control the tower... I'd appreciate any advice. I could try to use a radio control, and I probably wouldn't need to use a arduino chip to do it, but I'm just as lost with that method than I am with trying to use the joystick.