Beginning Arduino

Summary

This final chapter has showed how to connect your Arduino to the Internet, either for the purpose of sending data out in the form of a served webpage, a tweet to Twitter, an e-mail, or sensor data sent to Pachube, or for requesting a webpage and stripping data from that webpage for your own use. Having the ability to connect your Arduino to a LAN or the Internet opens up a whole new list of potential projects. Data can be sent anywhere around your house or office where an Ethernet port is available, or data can be read from the Internet for the Arduino to process, display, act upon, etc.

For example, you could use a current weather feed to determine if it is about to rain and warn you to bring your washing in from the clothesline or to ...