References

Tutorials


- All about circuits
- Electronics tutorials
- Interfacing Arduino with different hardware
- First steps in prototyping a design by SparkFun
- Atmega chip's bootloader hack - 1k bootloader

Where to buy

- Small 3.3V 8Mhz atmega238 development boards (Arduino ProMini, AT-Mini)

Forums and projects

- Discussions related to Atmel AVR microcontrollers on AVRfreaks
- Open Energy Monitor project

Other useful links

- MicroLAN (1-Wire) temperature sensor DS18B20
- Infrared detector (light-to-voltage) TLS262R
- Low-powered sub Ghz transciever CC1101
- High perfomance darlington arrays for stepper motors control ULN2003A


Theory and concepts

- Wikipedia about Wireless Sensor Networks
- What is jitter and how to live with it?


PCB section

- Eagle CAD


SmartHome / SmartEnergy

- An impressive list of ZigBee compatible smartenergy devices


OpenSource Software

- Event handling and systems monitoring Nagios
- Graph generation utilities RRDtool with a good tutorial
- Arduino IDE (Integrated Development Environment)







To be continued...