When I am not hemorrhaging money I believe I will invest in some of these boards and shields for awesomeness!

My first Omaha .NET User Group meeting was interesting. I didn't know anyone there, but god do I know the archetype profiles. I was motivated to going because of the .NET microframework and the possibility of winning one. Unfortunately all I got was a 2gb jump drive. Not bad.

Regardless - the ability to program my own hardware bits and sodder more bits is awesome!

*fill in evil laugh*

http://www.ghielectronics.com/catalog/category/267/

http://tinyclr.com/

led diods - 25 for $6.00... puts that about 0.24 each versus radio shack's buck fifty per diode.