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New toy on the desk: Arduino Ethernet shield

Friday, January 28th, 2011

Let me start by saying that I’ve not forgot my Arduino board in a drawer, I’ve been mainly playing with the provided examples without producing something worth to be blogged. Working with hardware require more free time than simply experimenting with software; time that unfortunately I do not have (attaching your Arduino board to your computer while travelling by train is a bit impractical and make you look a little suspicious). By the way during the last electronic surplus fair, here in Genoa, I bought an Ethernet shield: a little board that connected, sandwich like, over the Arduino board give it the capability of connecting and communicating over a local network and even over the Internet if you configure your network the right way.

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Some minor layout changes …

I made some minor changes to the blog, a part from some cleaning in the “button salad” on the side bar the major change is the message board removal. Feel free to leave your messages as post comments.

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