The boards I picked up were the Arduino Uno: Radio Shack is more expensive than ordering online, so in future I’ll be picking up components on the web. The other day I received a $10 coupon for Radio Shack, so I stopped by and picked up a couple of Arduino boards there. This acts as the base where I can then start to work out which components will fit onto it easily and map out how they will interact. I am going to start with the micro-controller. So it looks like the thermostat will contain the following basic hardware components: I found the following two websites incredibly useful as they gave an overview of projects other bloggers had completed: Having decided to replace the existing thermostats with a set of home-brew ones that can communicate wirelessly, I now need to find out which hardware is required and get a basic drawing together of how the components will interconnect.
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