Lately I’ve been lacking any personal projects. To compensate I finding myself working on code for my employer (Leapfrog Online) during my free time. That’s not very fun, but my lack of creativity wasn’t able to provide a solution.

All of that changed tonight. For some unknown reason I suddenly came up with a project. I’m not going to say what the actual project is yet, but I will say I’ve been doing a lot of reading on the Arduino, and was thrilled to find this: RAD. I will probably end up ordering one of these starter kits when I get back from RailsConf in a week.

I went to RIT for Computer Engineering, and I’ve always loved working with hardware as a hobby. Since I’ve been out of school I really haven’t done much with my soldering iron or bit mask knowledge, mostly Rails work, so this will be a fun change.