After my last project meeting (the first since the Xmas break) Chris and I both decided that I should start to make something! I am now pretty certain that my project will consist of a ‘datalogger’ that will wirelessly send a signal to a server to log the data in a database of some sort. This data can then be published in the public domain. As iI am going to make the Datalogger myself I thought it would be a good call to get started with some basic electronics. I purchased an Arduino Diecimila USB board (which arrived on friday!) to start having a mess around with. So my first steps were to plug it into my computer and sort the USB drivers out on my computer…which I have just done. It lit up like a christmas tree and installed first time with no problems…great! Next stap…get some electronic bits and bobs and make em do stuff! More on that later…