Two full weeks of Arduino experience is more fun than I initially thought, especially when working on a specific project instead of following loads of pages of tutorials. I finished working on my ‘Twitter Status displayer’, a project that monitors a Twitter account for status updates and displays a summary of the latest Tweet, along with the updated date and time on a 20×4 LCD. As an additional feature, it also handles accounts that have been protected (by using ‘Protect my tweets’ setting on Twitter) by displaying an appropriate message on the LCD.

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Today, I started playing with my Arduino Uno board I got a few weeks ago. Contrary to my assumption, getting started with the board was quite easy as most of it was regular C stuff with a couple of built-in functions for specific purposes.

Code organization is pretty simple too:

• setup(): for board and variable initialization specific to your program. This is executed by Uno when it’s reset.
• loop(): for your program logic. As the name implies, Uno keeps running this function over and over.

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