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You can get add on boards to make your Arduino more functional. Seeed (available at Radio Shack and other fine companies) makes several boards that are price competive.)   I bought the Seeed ethernet add-on board for half the price of the Arduino option, but it was a bit trimed down such as no card slot. The board also works with the Osepp Arduino clones. That is what we used for this project.   I wanted a way to have a temporary web server up when I needed to bring the regular web server down.  The Arduino was the perfect choice. I just took the web server example from the Arduino IDE and commented out the code that was not needed (but could be reused later) and added the code that was needed i.e. ...           client.println("<center>");           client.println("<h1>Your server name<h1>");         ...

Most everyone knows about the amazing Arduino. This integrated circuit much acts like a minimal cpu chip. There are hundreds of uses for it. everything from Sous vide machines, mini-weather stations, game machines, water sprinkler control, and a host of other uses. It is even the perfect platform for making your own robot. The list is never ending. The project originally started in Italy as an open source project and has done nothing but grow exponentially in popularity. This simple 20 pin chip is amazing. It has become so popular, that several companies have made development boards for the chip (now there are even more advanced versions of the Arduino i.e. Mega.) Fry's carries the Osepp Arduino and Radio Shack carries the original dip version Arduino Uno, but now I think they have gone to a surface mount version. You can also get the chips and the boards from many electronics retailers such as Jameco. Early Arduino unos development boards came socketed, you could easily pro...