Do You Arduino?A couple guys see if they can make anything cool with Arduino

I think I’ve found a reason to pick up & run with the Arduino again: I recently purchased an Arduino Uno, ethernet shield, a 16×2 line LCD, & a few other miscellaneous parts from Adafruit.

The ethernet shield was something I’d wanted ever since I learned about Arduino. The problem was with my Nano, you can’t use any of the shields. Problem solved! And now that I have 2 boards, I can have 2 builds going at the same time

Since everything just arrived last night, I only was able to load a couple example sketches–one to see it act as a simple webserver & another to make sure that it can read/write to the on-board MicroSD card (on the ethernet shield). Both sketches worked well with little effort.

Also, I recently upgraded my PC to Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal (from 10.10 Maverick Meerkat). What’s really cool is that there is the latest Arduino IDE in the standard Ubuntu package repositories! I should no longer have to worry about not having the latest IDE…

I’ve got a busy weekend coming up so it might be a few days before I follow-up, but my goals now are to build a simple webserver and/or a client for reading Twitter (or maybe RSS) feeds. Stay tuned!