IBM Developer Works: Home automation using X10 Jun 30, 2006, 18 :30 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (7237 reads) (Other stories by Peter Seebach)
"One of the dreams of the '80s was that one day, around the time everyone had rocket cars, computers would control everything in your house; lighting, for instance. We don't have rocket cars, but the X10 protocol allows you to turn things on and off remotely.
"In this article, Peter Seebach shows how to set up and drive X10 devices using off-the-shelf hardware and a couple of hundred lines of simple code..."
