DSC – Differential Solar Controller

To control a domestic solar hot water system, a custom controller was built using the Arduino Duemilanove. It reads temperature inputs from the tank and roof sensors to drive a relay that turns the circulator pump on and off. Temperature readings are sent via serial port to a laptop which records and graphs the temperature data. The graphs and data are sent wirelessly to a web server, that displays the current temperatures and status using a Google Gadget. [...]

AVR and ISP

Schematic

The ATMEL ISP programming standard is a 6 pin header, from the AVR Hardware Design Considerations appnote.  This pinout is used on the STK500.  Unlike some protocols (eg. RX and TX) there is no need to swap the MISO and MOSI lines when wiring up the header.  The stk500 is able to have LEDS [...]