The Arduino Ethernet shield has been around for some time now. It’s a great solution for cutting out the middle man of the computer when check things online from the Arduino. In order to build smaller cases I stumbled upon EtherTen from Freetronics. It’s a fully Arduino-compatible board that runs Arduino code AND connects to internet with Ethernet.
Lets make a list of the pros:
- Smaller than Arduino board with Ethernet shield on top
- Runs Arduino Ethernet library
- Power of Ethernet, no power supply needed (!!!!)
- Micro SD card holder
- And sexy round corners (rounder than the Ethernet Shield)
- Neat mini USB socket
When it arrived I simply ran the TwitterClient file by Tom Igoe in Ethernet examples of the Arduino IDE and it was up and running. To call my custom php file was a bit harder though. Example code to be posted on my Arduino Circuit Blog shortly.