A short article on one way of communicating through the Web from/to a Arduino board.

This article explains how to use the Arduino and an Xport Ethernet module to send and retrieve data to an external web server. I discuss the advantages of this method over various other methods of communications between Arduino and the internet. After discussing hardware setup, some simple test code for Arduino and the PHP code that you need to run on the web server is provided. Some real world extensions of this project are a web page that lets you control the lights in your house, or sending sensor data to a web page and graphing it so you have a pretty record of sensor readings.

[From Hobby Robotics » Arduino, Xport, PHP and the Internet]

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