an Arduino with an SoC running Linux with an Ethernet port. It’s pretty much the same thing as an Arduino wired up to a router, with the added bonus of having tons of libraries available.

The thing that makes this build a little unusual is the ethernet port ... with Arduino covering the firmware and host control side in python. You can read all about it on the Ethersweep project ...

Arduino have taken the tiny wraps off of the official ethernet shield for their open-source prototyping platform, which adds network connectivity to the device. Based on the Wiznet W5100 ...

There is also a “Cloud Flash” feature to program networked-enabled devices like the Arduino Ethernet or Arduino & Ethernet Shield. Both efforts indicate tiny revolts in the non-networked IDE ...