title: Easy Button to UDP Packet - Control board terminology
body: <p>For those who deal with microcontroller programming...</p>
  
  <p>I want to take a momentary contact switch (let's say a Staples Easy Button, since that's the most fun momentary contact switch around), and when it is pressed, send a broadcast UDP packet across a network (to be received by a .NET application and do all sorts of fun things from there).</p>
  
  <p>The closest thing I've found so far is industrial data acquisition hardware interfaces, but I'm looking for more of a programmable single microcontroller with a couple input pins and ethernet output. Is there a special term for this or any particular recommendations?</p>