Well its time for an update,

still waiting on hardawe but that is a minor thing at the moment. i aw currently working on the wiring of this thing and how best to integrate it with the rest of my equipment so i can selectivly turn anything off. it looks like a slightly modified 12c bus will be used to talk to any power plug and enable/disable

this means a bit of auto discovery majic so i can expand it easily and working out what i need to send (are on/off signals the only thing i will be sending). for the power sockets i am looking at microchips 12F675 as its cheap, fast and has everything you would need in a 8 bit package. for the ppc board to the rest of the network i am thinking of a 16F877 as i have several lying around its 40pin so it has the output and input i need. i fuigure with this attached to a parrelle/serial port i can move all the data i need

i also currently have a website up for other projects i am working on. when i have more info up i will provide a link