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'Sup Arduino thread! As an excuse to learn C#, I ended up buying a Netduino Plus. It's nice because besides being able to debug with Visual Studio, the actual Netduino kit includes ethernet connectivity right out of the box. I managed to make it a ghetto web server that will flash LEDs and write out to a LCD screen the IP address of the last person to navigate to the Netduino. So now that I have the ability to light things, etc - I have an idea. I'm going to make a web-controlled trebuchet. The idea is that you'll tweet a hashtag to fire it. I'll have the Netduino use Twitter's API to check for new Tweets every so often and go from there. Even more awesome-er: The company I work for is actually encouraging me to do this! As in, they'll reimburse me for the trebuchet kit AND I get to do this on company time!  Before the Netduino, I actually started with a kit from Nerdkits.com. This thing was even more barebones than an Arduino. You had to manipulate individual registers, set bits on/off, etc. in straight C. The Netduino is far easier to work with. Although it carries less 'street cred'.
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