heard you mention arduino before, im soon to begin helping the mother in law design an art project using arduino and know nothing about it yet, just wondering if you could point me to any good rescourses? after ive done her project with her, i was thinking of building some kind of car monitoring system with it afterwards to hopefully build a wicked carputer :-)

To be honest mate I've just used the arduino playground stuff: http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Learning/Learning