Hardware Fun with the Arduino board

A month or two ago I started playing with the arduino.

I managed to get the arduino environment working on my local desktop, running a 64bit Fedora
7.  I installed the 32 bit version of Sun's Java somewhat the same way as was published under
the arduino documentation for Fedora installations.

It was a lot of fun finding all of the various articles published about the arduino and the
Atmel AVR.  I then managed to put together a parallel port programer so that I could burn the
chip used in the arduino from scratch.  Along the way I set up KontrollerLab on the machine,
and also learned how the use avrdude from the command line.