Some of the first steps toward working with Arduino is understanding how to write code for it. The good news is that it's made with beginners in mind.

Google+ Hangouts provide a group video chat with the ability to add apps. [RobotGrrl] created a Node.js web app to control an Arduino that can be added to a Hangout. There’s a Javascript client ...

It’s these higher performance chips [Larry] had in mind when writing his JPEGDEC library. As [Larry] discusses in a blog post on the topic, JPEG libraries already exist for the Arduino platform.