You can do a ton of cool things using microcontrollers, like reading your nintendo nunchucks data and sending it to your PC via USB. If you want a free and really powerful one, here's your chance:
http://www.st.com/internet/mcu/class/1734.jsp (click the bottom right flash banner)
It says USA and Canada so I am out of luck, but it might work for you
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