Arduino!

So, among the totally amazing gifts I received for Christmas is this awesome Arduino starter kit!  Totally appeals to all of my tinkering spirits and one of my New Year's goals is to work my way through all of the projects in the included book - there are 15 so that's more than one a month... guess I have to get on it!  Ok, that's not entirely true, I've already worked through the first two projects so I am on pace so far this year - but those posts will come later as I continue to work my way through the included projects I will probably (hopefully, I intend to) write a post for each of them.

Don't know about Ardunio?  The short version: its an open source micro controller board.  And its awesome.  The longer version?  Well... I'll leave that to the experts.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino or http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/Introduction.  

So I guess this is my official first post?  Plenty more to come...  I get bored easily and I love projects such as these so I'll be sure to keep this updated as I work through things.  Maybe my next post will be more about me?  We'll see if another project distracts me between now and then...