The Arduino community continues to wow me! Check out this tutorial for using the VirtualWire libraries to communicate between two Arduino controllers over distance. The author uses it to send messages from an Arduino in his basement to another on the roof of his house. Pretty slick and much more lightweight (though perhaps slightly slower) [...]

These are the slides from a talk I gave last week at Lycoming College in Williamsport PA. Enjoy!

Rossum asks: “Can you make an iPhone out of an AVR? No. Can you get a surprising amount of functionality out of a humble 8 bit processor and a cheap touch LCD? Yes.”
and here’s the result

Check out more on his page here and check out the source code here
It’s really awesome work!