I have only recently got into the world of Arduino after looking enviously at them for some time now.
My first "proper" arduino creation is a browser based remote control which I submitted to instructables (mainly so I could get some feedback from people so I can present better projects).
This morning I woke up and I had 2 emails from instructables - one saying the project had been featured in the Technology section, and a second one telling me I had made the home page and giving me a one year instructables pro membership!
Without an Arduino I would never have got the massive buzz from knowing that people interested in technology like my idea.
Thank you all , I have gone through quite a number of threads on this forum looking for inspiration and simple ideas I can do with my couple of bits of wire and a few bits of scrap electronic components.
I've got a HDMI matrix box which also does IR extension, only the IR part has stopped working. I've been contemplating building an IR extender with web interface so I can set it to do time based complex events (turn the cable box off, turn the blu-ray player on, change the hdmi input, etc). Your article inspired me to start work on it.
I discovered I've got an IR receiver rather than a decoder and I couldn't get it to relay an input to an IR output so work has stopped until I get a proper ir decoding receiver thing.