First, let’s congratulate George.  He has graduated from Purdue University as of this morning, so he is now qualified to go forth to solve the world’s engineering problems.  Congrats, George!

With the end of the school year comes moving to new places, and as such, the 8-bit Web server has come out of storage.  What’s different than last time is that it now has the LED array hooked up and playing the messages that Internet users send to it.  To give it a try (and send stuff to the LED array), simply visit http://benlaskowski.is-a-geek.net:8000/.

As I will have a little more free time this summer, I intend to get the 32-bit VoIP board up and running.  I have so far made it send dummy ARP packets over the network correctly.  Complete implementations of TCP/IP and the like are a long way off, but hopefully everything will come together this summer.

Edit:  VoIP32 now supports ARP and ICMP.  Yes, these are small steps, but it shows that different buffers work properly and that I actually can correctly compute checksums in software.  In preliminary testing, the board can echo 1kB of ping data in one millisecond.  Not too shabby…