Possibly... I feel utterly defeated by this eight year old:
So I'm going to get the boy to make something instead, and youtube it up...
UPDATE: Not actually giving up on arduino just yet, Just found this1 which solves all my serial communication problems from the macbook, written in nodejs.
arduino: Microcontroller, hardware prototyping platform, a tiny specialised computer.
nodejs: Js (programming language of the web) on the server side.
Paul Clarke's weblog - I live in A small town. Married + dad to 2, I am a full stack web developr, + I do javascript / Node, some ruby, other languages ect ect. I like pubbing, parkrun, eating, home automation and other diy jiggery-pokery, history, genealogy, Television, squirrels, pirates, lego, and time travel.