your first instinct is typically to buy a starter kit, as it already has everything you need; from the Arduino board itself, ...

The Arduino is an excellent first embedded development kit, provides a great introduction ... [David] forked the OpenBlocks project and started working on his new graphical programming language.

Not according to [techtoys], who has created an Arduino shield that creates an HDMI output from an SPI control input. This is a project that seems to have been around for a couple of years ...