Inspired and helped by two great guys - @AndrewMohawk (http://andrewmohawk.com) and @RC1140 (http://runawaycoder.co.za) - I've become interested in electronics and hardware. Tonight I managed to wire up a newly acquired ENC28J60 Ethernet Module to my Arduino Uno, which gives it the ability to connect to a network (great for controlling the Arduino with your mobile phone!)

It's worth mentioning at this point that I know almost nothing about electronics, how to read diagrams, or wire things up. Luckily for me this Ethernet Module is fairly popular, well supported, and I managed to find a a great blog post that's only a few days old on how to do exactly what I was trying to do: http://nathanhein.com/2013/02/getting-arduino-online-with-an-enc28j60/

Somehow I managed to get everything wired up first try, and when powering on your Arduino the Ethernet module should also light up. The libraries and sample code you need are linked to in Nathan's blog post.

Success: