Ya, done got me a brand spanking new 3 phase AC induction motor on Ebay for $20. hehe.
Yahoo!!!
I'm also going to order a few digikey parts pretty quick too. Then I need to learn to program the stupid pic, and then I'm going to do a V/f = constant approach to control the motor. Then we'll take the rather large leap to space vector control! ya!
OK, I just ordered the stuff from digikey too. That was really financially unwise. hahahaha.