The HelloHome project
As far as I can remember, remote controlling things have always been a goal in itself. I can remember the time when I was around 12 and though of a system to close the curtains of my bedroom without leaving my bed. At that time, it would have been made of fisher technics, RC servo motors from my RC plane and a modified version of my first RC remote. The project was never finished but, already then, gave me hundreds of hours of very interesting time fiddling with electronic and remote controls. Well, guess what... nothing has fundamentaly changed and, when I first met Arduino's, my playground had expended a bit but my first idea was again to remote control everything in my house. I stated to look for an Arduino alike that would be easier to embed in a small box and would ideally include wireless capabilities and found Moteino