Arduino - LearnArduino - tutorial on setting up arduino board and ide. Am getting ready for arduino tutorial with Artificialtourism next week. Received boards today from Italy - excellent turn around, just ordered them last week and they were with me this morning - nothing like tearing open a ups package to find a nice little circuit board. Took the usb printer cable out the printer (which is wireless anyway...), downloaded the ide, extracted the usb / serial drivers, plugged it all together and hey presto - the little green led lights up and says *hello world* (well, it wakes up, the next step is to get it saying hello world). Lets get some LED's flashing....

Daniel Shiffman � The Nature of Code - coursework on intro to processing - nice examples.

Arduino Xbee, Zigbee wireless sensor and actuator iterface forwarded by Gonzalo and a potential avenue to explore for bop prototypes. BUT, would need to think about all the apps needed to get the real benefit of the *wirelessness*. The radio removes the need to wire together two communicating arduinos but thats it. To get a network setup and running would need to source methods for multihop networking etc.

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A useful streamed video introducing the Crossbow WSN. Requires registering your details with Crossbow but useful to get an overview of how to set-up a WSN at a high level using their hardware / software.

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