Must-haves for EASY DIY controller?

I dont think that the Relay board has been tested...DustinB built a prototype but I dont think anyone has built up the board that is on the google code site. I am working on a BOM but haven't had a chance to finish it yet. Its pretty self explainitory. PNP and NPN transistors a DB9, MCP chip, 2 voltage regulators, a few caps and some diodes. The values and info are in the Eagle files for the board is anyone wants to proceed before a BOM is created. The DB9 is the PCB mount that Sparkfun sells
 
bullfightr said:
Does anyone have the BOM saved as a project on Mouser, that they could share with me directly, so I don't have to go about importing it. Send me a PM thanks!
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The BOM file has a column for mouser import. Just copy and paste it in the BOM manager.

Just don't forget to double check the parts after that.
 
nauticac4 said:
I dont think that the Relay board has been tested...DustinB built a prototype but I dont think anyone has built up the board that is on the google code site. I am working on a BOM but haven't had a chance to finish it yet. Its pretty self explainitory. PNP and NPN transistors a DB9, MCP chip, 2 voltage regulators, a few caps and some diodes. The values and info are in the Eagle files for the board is anyone wants to proceed before a BOM is created. The DB9 is the PCB mount that Sparkfun sells
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I can't find anyone with Hydra boards, so I was going to place an order for them. I wanted to add the relay boards to the order to save on shipping. The board looks good and looks like it would work fine. I was just wondering if it was tested.

Thanks for the reply.
 
If someone wants to send me one I'll test it with the hydra. The design looks solid and I don't anticipate any issues, but there's always a chance. I may try and order some in a few days.
 
Great project guys, I've been following it for awhile and will be building one shortly!

One thing I noticed, the 579-ENC28J60/SP Ethernet controller seems to be marked as obsolete and unavailable at Mouser, is there any replacement? I see the 579-ENC28J60-I/SP but is SPDIP-28 compatible with DIP-28?
 
This might be a bad question but what is every one ending up using for headers to connect the devices like lcds and anything else running from the hyda. I no this was left open to the user but I am looking for a direction. PICTURES please
 
theres pictures in the previous builds of the headers they used.. but there is too many header designs out there it's kindof personal preference on what you wanta add.. whether male or female straight or 90 long or short.. theres screw terminals too... theres more i just cant think of off the top of my head but thats why it was left open option...
 
I am in the process of building one and will be using regular female headers. Once I get everything the way I want it and I am fairly sure that nothing is going to change drastically I am going to solder some sort of connectors to the board because a wire coming loose or falling out scares me as far flinged an idea as it might be.
 
Looks like I've committed to Hydra - parts ordered from mouser and ebay. Only thing left to get is about $4 of parts from digikey (actually $2 parts, and $2 shipping), and the 2 ATMEGA328P.

Just the issue of finding a Hydra board now. PM me if you have a spare :spin2:

Then there would be relay boards, and "the" power strip :o

Then temp probes.

Then PH probes.

... baby steps for now ...

Does it ever end?
 
The micro controllers get addicting. After you get your first project running you start to see all the other cool things that you can do with them and it snowballs from there.
 
Been following this thread for a while now. Was considering building a basic light controller with my arduino and adding options later but I have decided to pull the trigger on a Hydra. This board has every option that I would ever want for my controller.

Was wondering if anyone had any boards for sale? If not anyone interested in a group buy?

Thanks and keep up the good work on this project!

Mitch
 
Hydra Boards

Hydra Boards

Ok so what is the consensus on the best place to have the boards made? I really only need one but I guess I will have some for sale since no one responded to my post about buying one.

Mitch
 
Hydra Software

Hydra Software

I am completely up and running with the Hydra board and have made some modifications to the software to support my aquarium.

In particular I have made a communication class that can transfer more data other that the pH info from the Master to the Slave.

I don't have an IR remote in my system so my plans are to have very simple web forms control and report data from the Hydra. I have this pretty much up and running with reporting data to the web server interface and now need to do some work with HTTP POST requests to update information on the Hydra (e.g. clock, date, backlight min and max, etc...).

Question:
Does anyone know if the ethershield library we are using has any helpers for pulling apart the serial data received from the ENC chip? Basically looking for a functions that reports true for HTTP GET request or HTTP POST request and a pointer to the data payload.
 
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