I had the idea for a while, but Mike did indeed provide excellent motivation. He also told me about parpin.
Incidentally, while my board could easily run 120V relays, I want to stay away from hi-voltage stuff because it's dangerous, and because that's what X10 is for.
And also incidentally, this board should be really nifty when it's done. A big centronics connector will let you plug in a regular printer cable and use use uisp to program the Atmel uC. Or, you can not even bother to install the uC (saving $20 or so in parts) and just use parpin to control stuff directly.
This is also along the lines of what I did on my Thesis. I used a USB connection to communicate with the microcontrollers, and worked with a number of different devices as well
http://www.tuxrocks.com/Research/
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