This Arduino BASIC interpreter will make a really fun one-day project if you’ve already got the parts on hand. [Usmar A. Padow] put together an Arduino Uno, SD card, four line character LCD, … ...

Surely creating them from a simple microcontroller will be impossible! Not according to [techtoys], who has created an Arduino shield that creates an HDMI output from an SPI control input.

Check out the this colourful but BASIC use of Arduino, flagged in the "Tweets of the Week" section of the magazine, but it's worth highlighting in a bit more detail.