Stage 2  - Complete

Lighting controller; for local control of all lights in a zone, a zone for my purposes will be one level on the house, I will use a GameBoy as the prototype local control panel.  I²c will be utilised to keep complexity down.

I gave up on the gameboy as the display contrast was not good enough.  I opted to go upmarket and use a modern microcontroller namely the ATMEL.  I purchased an STK 500 from Dontronics, got prompt service and a working product.  I used the ATMEL studio development environment and got a prototype up in 24 hours. 

For the hardware I have ordered the AT Mega board from FUTURLEC, I have been getting bits there on and off for a while.  There stuff is cheap and good quality, the documentation is crap.

I will post a more detailed hardware description later.