If you are looking to play around with X10 technology, this project may be what you are looking for.
“I was looking for a cheap way to interface my PIC microcontroller projects with my X10 home automation system. Plug-in serial X10 interfaces have to be … plugged into the wall, so I thought a good alternative would be to hack a wireless X10 remote. It worked… here are the details.”
Via: Hackaday
X10 Hacking
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The original hackaday post can’t be found – you don’t happen to have a copy saved do you?
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The main link still works (first link).