Arduino Ethernet shield programmable RSS reader

This is a relatively easy project with almost no hardware modification. All thats needed is:

Arduino (Duemilanove 328)

Ethernet Shield

LCD

potentiometer

jumper wire

there's a simple instructable outlining the whole procedure.

other helpful links include:

connecting the LCD

EthernetDHCP Library - the instructable leaves this out.

The top picture shows the completed project programmed to display my Twitter feed. The bottom picture shows the Arduino with the Ethernet shield stack on.

In the future I hope to use other inputs from separate boards and have them auto update the twitter account giving the status on whatever I decide to measure. It would be cool to have the reader cycle through multiple RSS feeds too.

This could also be an interesting solution for people not-so-technically inclined. You could build a box for your grandparents that would auto-cycle through their grandchildren's twitter accounts plus their local weather. It would be much cheaper than a computer and hard to mess up - just plug in and the code takes care of the rest!