As noted under Description I intend this to evolve into a general home automation terminal which will display and control a variety of information. The next few steps are (mostly in order, key for X's at bottom)
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Temperature sensing (have thermisters now, may change to Dallas one-wire or other sensors if time and resources permit) | ||||||||
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Music - I'd like to be able to send QBasic like play statements to play short musical pieces "cdefg>ab" (May not happen) | ||||||||
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Protocol - I need to design first a Master-Slave protocol for an RS-485 network, controlled by a computer in the basement. Perhaps I'll jump straight to multi-master. | ||||||||
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Put the RS-485 chip in and design a computer interface at both the hardware and software level for the 485 network. | ||||||||
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Wire the house | ||||||||
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Redesign the unit for a flash uController such as the PIC16C8xx line | ||||||||
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Place a few test units around the house | ||||||||
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Design the Heater, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Controller and hook it into the network | ||||||||
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Set up a computer to master the system, and get info from the internet periodically | ||||||||
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Place door/window sensors | ||||||||
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Place IR-motion sensors in each room | ||||||||
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Re-design protocol for peer-peer intelligent networking, ideally no computer needed. | ||||||||
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Decide how to handle music/MP3/intercom integration | ||||||||
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=Waiting | |
=Designing | |
=Prototyping |  |
=Coding | |
=Done |