Over the past month, I've been pretty busy doing all sorts of stuff. Some of the stand out things have been setting up Circuit Cellar Design Challenge with Circuit Cellar/Elektor and NXP (the response here has blown us away! I'll write more soon :) and going to shows like ESC and Maker Faire and talking to *lots* of people about amazing things (and getting to meet so many of you already using mbed! Awesome!), plus all the usual stuff of development, presenting at events/customers, dealing with all the important but unexciting things like distribution etc.

But I haven't really been keeping an eye on what *you* had been up to. So for the first time in a while i've just had a browse around the site to see what was up. Turns out you have been busy! So I decided to note down some of the things I found...

First off, Shinichiro Nakamuru has done some amazing work! Check out a selection of the libraries and some specifically for the star board orange, including driving a car with a wii nunchuck:

and logging data to the web!

Kenneth Adams has put together a library for the SCP1000 Pressure Sensor making it really easy to get this part up and running.

Matt Parsons has written a Servo library called UniServ that can control a servo on any DigitalOut. That is a lot of servos! Interested to know what they might be doing :)

Aaron Berk has written a library for the CMPS03 Digital Compass, the ADXL345 Accelerometer, the HMC6352 Digital Compass and the ITG 3200 Gyroscope!

Looks like Matthew Petersen and co. have created a UI for an MP3 player, based on some previous work:

Michael Walker has done some great work hooking up the mbed RPC interfaces to Java, LabView and Matlab. That opens up a whole host of possibilities for connecting PC's to the real world, and hooking up sensors and actuators to over applications.

Stanislaus Eichstaedt has followed up with a library to hook up mbed to .NET using the RPC interface!

There is some great work being done on something being called mbeduino:

and an example by Kenneth Adams of an mbed weather station running a web server:

Marc Smith made an Internet Clock connecting to an NTP server:

And Mike C has posted up details of some form of weather tracking robot!

And to finish us off, here are some experiments using the 4D Systems TFT Touchscreen based on some work by Stephane Rochon and Martin Smith:

Wow! I'm sure i've missed stuff, but I think this is pretty impressive already!

It is great to see the new library functionality getting used already. This is something that could be really great; i'm hoping this will help create a wealth of libraries that avoid everyone having to reinvent the wheel every time you want to connect to something, and making it possible to pick up any breakout and get it working in record time so you can concentrate on your application. Please continue to put in the effort to polish and publish your libraries and write them up in the cookbook! It could be amazing!

And some of these projects and experiments could evolve in to excellent contenders for the Circuit Cellar Design Challenge too. If you've got a contender in development, please tag it with "mbedchallenge" and I might do a roundup of progress sometime :) If you don't know what the mbed challenge is, take a look! It's open to anyone with an mbed and an idea...

Given all this activity we're seeing, we're now working on bringing you some new features to help you share and discover libraries. So keep up the great work and lets make rapid prototyping for microcontrollers a reality!