I’ve been meaning to blog about this for about two months, so here’s a bit of background. Back in October, a friend (and coworker) of mine and I decided to start playing around with simple electronics in our spare time. We both bought the Arduino starter kit from Adafruit and during our first meeting, quickly worked through the first few tutorial lessons at ladyada.net. It didn’t take long before we decided to meet every Tuesday for lunch and hack on our new hobby.