I've just started using the Arduino board in the last few month and I really enjoy it. I've little experience with electronics but I'm a professional programmer so I love the way I can leverage one interest to help me learn another.
This weekend I completed my first real project. I've built a simple thermometer that talks to my PC. A program written in Processing displays the reading on my screen. Not exactly cutting edge but I was really happy with it.
@moo - you did a very good write up and a good explanation of what/why you did things. I had just found Processing and was not at all familiar with it, now I understand a bit better.
You did good..... maybe break some of those long text sections into paragraphs to provide a bit of space in the thoughts?
I especially do like the way you took it from version 1 with it's problems, to the final solution. I will be following your blog - and maybe try that same thing. I've a temp sensor set up on a breadboard that displays to a LCD, but it would be neat to display to computer screen also.
I also understood more about use of "delay" vs "millis" and why to use one other the other.
Many thanks for those kind words. Quite right about the paragraph length. That's a hard one to get right. I think I'll edit it tonight to break them up. I was so excited when I'd finished the project that I rattled the blog off in no time.