As a total novice I built a Megasquirt for a project that never got done. The MS was completed and I fired my old '89 GMC with it but it was my computer skills that made things tough for me. Some day I'll get back to it. Although the number of pieces and tiny solder joints were intimidating I did it. If you can read the instructions for a model car kit you can do this. You really don't have to understand how it works just follow directions and learn as much of the special vocabulary as you can so you know how to ask questions and understand the answers.
"I wonder if God created man because he was disappointed in the monkey?" Mark Twain
