[rwaldron]

I'm glad you think it's weird ;)

From the Firmata website:

"Firmata is a generic protocol for communicating with microcontrollers from software on a host computer. It is intended to work with any host computer software package. Right now there is a matching object in a number of languages. It is easy to add objects for other software to use this protocol. Basically, this firmware establishes a protocol for talking to the Arduino from the host software. The aim is to allow people to completely control the Arduino from software on the host computer."

To you, the joy of microcontrollers might be one thing, but to me another. _that_ is the real joy of microcontrollers—there is more then one way to play with them.