A PHP script on the Arduino does all the heavy lifting and with the great Bildr tutorial on getting the Ethernet shield up and running, [Chris] was off to the races.

The Ethernet shield gives the user a great interface from the Arduino to the outside world and is on my personal list of shields to buy.

There is also a “Cloud Flash” feature to program networked-enabled devices like the Arduino Ethernet or Arduino & Ethernet Shield.

Arduino announced a single-pair Ethernet adapter board for its Uno R4 single-board microcontroller at Electronica this morning.

The official Arduino IDE is a dour piece of software designed for uploading code to the ubiquitous and super-cool micro controller. It is a standalone, non-networked app that isn't very pretty to ...