Hi there, I just got my mbed about a week ago and I've been messing around with it, waiting for more parts to come in. I'm a visual artist and I want to make sculptures (or whatever you'd call them) with social media accounts. I see there is a twitter API on here but that's all I've seen...would it be that hard to have an mbed with a bunch of sensors, a camera, SD card, that uploads what it senses to say blogspot or facebook? or even if i made my own simple CMS that it would upload to? Are FTP transfers possible? Also...would it be that hard to take Arduino libraries and use them in mbed? I am mostly interested in this twitpic library: http://code.google.com/p/arms22/downloads/detail?name=TwitPic-003.zip&can=2&q=label%3AArduino I'd really like to make a painting that takes pictures of viewers and puts them on twitter :-P

I've been using arduino and processing for a year...and now i'm starting to see their limitations...I'm ok at programming and web design and stuff...although I don't understand MySQL too much... I mostly do art...so I just want to hack my way through this stuff and get it up and running as fast as possible...at least to get started and see what's possible... any ideas where I should begin to get to work on this? which libraries and stuff to look at? how to learn MySQL (if necessary) for this type of stuff... thanks so much for any input! hope i didn't ask too many questions :-)

Have you browsed the many contributed programs here in the code section?

Hi, Yeah I've spent a lot of time browsing and searching through them. I haven't been able to find much that does similar things that I want to do...or probably I don't understand exactly what they are doing...like this one for example: http://mbed.org/users/Airman50/programs/FTP_Server_D1/liny77 I don't really know what that does let alone how I would use it...but it sounds like something I might be able to use... there are no libraries for any social networking stuff other than the twitter ones... is there a library that would let me upload data to an ftp space? can I use http requests and use the post command? is it possible to have a robot that would make blog posts? do blog api's allow that? What's an example of something I could do with the MySQL library?

I guess this is just me coming from arduino...any library would come with a few examples for possible stuff you could do with it and I learned that way...now a lot of these libraries don't have well commented examples so I'm pretty clueless...sorry for my ignorance...i'm just having trouble finding an entry point...