Has anyone seen these microcontrollers?

[YALE]

http://www.arduino.cc/

I wanted to buy one to make some ladder logic toys for my little cousins. Doesn anyone have any experience with these?

[YALE]

Wow, these are cheap!

http://www.makershed.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=43

[bug1124]

I have a couple arduinos. You can program them to do pretty much anything if you learn the language but there is definitely a learning curve. I recommend getting some shields from adafruit to help get you started quicker. With a motor shield you can control servos, step motors, and dc motors easily.

[Chambers]

I've used them for projects as well. Cheap, and very easy to program. I've got one of mine setup to do temp monitoring. Second project is a home brew automation controller.

For an intro to microcontrollers, you'd have a hard time finding a better platform.

[YALE]

Thanks, fellas. I also want to see if I can build some equipment for work. I'm not impressed with what we get for the cost of some of the PLC stuff we have, and if I can just build it instead, I'd rather do that. I'll walk before I can run, though, lol.