Arduino Ehternet Shield

So here’s my first real post. I received the Arduino Ethernet Shield today. Plugged it in top of the Arduino board, connected the USB and a Ethernet cable and I was ready to go. Honestly the exact workings of the code is a little mystery for me at the moment but I tried out some demo codes, and this piece of hardware is real deal. There are so many things a simple modder can do with this. For example, below I am showing this working as a web server.

Just point your browser to the address you set it up with and it will serve you a page. Another amazing application I tried was the Webduino project (http://code.google.com/p/webduino/). A demo program in this let me change values of the digital output pins. I just switched a LED on and off through the browser. Pretty interesting huh? Imagine controlling your household peripherals remotely through your browser. I am not yet sure about password protection. Obviously you don’t want a stranger turning your front porch light on right?

I only had a while to play around with this gadget. Will try and build something interesting soon and come back here. In the meantime enjoy another shot.

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