It is an Arduino compatible board (hardware, not footprint) based on the ATMEGA1284P which can be programmed to collect and post data to internet logging sites such as Thingspeak or Xively.

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You have to issue a serial port command to turn on higher level logging and debug functions. If you start with the examples that come with the library (use the simple one for an AVR-based Arduino ...