For a bit of promotional fun to help more people discover mbed, I thought I'd have a little prize draw.

By the end of the week, I'm going to choose 5 tweeters at random who tweet:

"Check out the mbed Microcontroller, and retweet this for a chance to win one! http://bit.ly/mPAKOz"

..and send them a free mbed! To make it easy, you can just click below to tweet the message and enter :)

• Tweet: Check out the mbed Microcontroller, and retweet this for a chance to win one! http:bit.ly/mPAKOz

So, what is the idea?!

Well, it turns out most people find out about mbed by chance through being mentioned by a friend or collegue. They then look it up, see it can really help them, we sell a board and a new member of the community joins us! We really like that sort of introduction, and it is probably a good reason for the quality of the engineers turning up in the forums.

So this little promotion helps you help a few more people hear about mbed through the medium of twitter and prizes. Hopefully some will discover mbed can help them, we'll sell a few more boards, and the talent pool in our community will grow even further! And 5 will win one!

If you haven't looked recently at how the community is growing, take a look at the mbed world map showing some of you that have shared your location in your profile:

• http://mbed.org/map

If mbed is new to you, why not have a look around the site to get a feel for what it is about; things like the Cookbook are great for getting a feel of what you can do. Checkout the tour for an overview of why mbed may and may not be what you are after; if it might, you can buy one through the order page.

Good luck and happy tweeting!