Control AC Outlets Over a Network with AVR ATmega16
Synopsis: Using an Atmel NGW100, Olimex AVR I/O relay board, and some electrical elbow grease, I made a network accessible AC Outlet Control.
The purpose of this project was to see what it would take to build a remote controlled outlet. The basic requirements were that I wanted to be able to use a secure shell to log in to a device and tell it to turn on or off a 120V A/C socket.
Using a $69 Linux embedded board (an Atmel NGW100), an AVR microcontroller relay board, open source development tools (WinAVR), and some home-brewed software and electrical elbow grease, I now have a system I can use to hard boot a server remotely. Read the details at: http://sawdust.see-do.org/power/files/AVRRemoteACControl.html