The majority of this project is software based. I'm currently spending time on designing a website for the home automation server (Hub). Spending the a lot of my time on w3schools.com refreshing my javascript and AJAX knowledge. 

I want buttons and text input etc to have immediate effect on the nodes without refreshing the website. This is important as reloading an entire website is annoying and with an 8-bit micro using uart, can be time consuming. The reason for using an 8-bit micro such as Arduino to serve the website is, for one, most people start out using simple microcontrollers and I want people of all skill levels to be able to have a go. The other reason is, I believe a device like a raspberry pi is overkill for such a task and a pain to setup and wait for it too boot up.. I'd like to keep costs down too..

I will upload the code for a basic website with asynchronous controls and visual feedback of the "real-time" outputs state and Arduino code for people to play along with soon...