Arduinos!

I ordered a couple of Ardiuno Duemilenove's to use in upcoming home and car automation projects. It took a little over two weeks, but they finally arrived!
The arduinos are microcontrollers based around an 8-bit Atmel RISC CPU.

From New Arduinos

They are so cute!

After about an hour of learning, I now have a the necessary sketch uploaded and a companion .NET application that turns the on board LED on and off. To put it another way, I have produced a SPST switch. But this is so much cooler! :D

For those interested, I ordered these two from Little Bird Electronics .