An idea I have in my mind is to create a mood light with arduino. It also should have an internet connection to be able to pull some information from the web. For example it could poll the data from yahoo weather and would change its color according to the forecast for the day…

The other day I bought a ENC28J60 ethernet breakout board on eBay for around $4.50. Lots cheaper than an ethernet shield of course.

To test it out I connected the ENC28J60 to my Arduino UNO according to this post. Which means I made the following connections:
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