Right after we got the network running on my board (see my previous post) I got the board of the talented hacker mentioned before and started to hack a small read-only IRC client for it (after having a look at RFC1459 and RFC2812. About an hour later I was able to connect to a server, join a channel and listen for messages which are displayed on the OLED display. Unfortunately the display is broken on that particular board. But none the less, there is a lot of cool stuff ahead.

Again we have some screenshots: