gongbot

Announce gong strikes in IRC

Introduction

The goal of this project is simple: Announce nerf-to-gong interactions in IRC.

The @blip office has several characteristics that made this project a necessity:

1. Gongs. We have two of them.
2. Nerf guns. We have way more than two of them.
3. IRC. We only have one IRC server, but it has lots of users

Code

This project went through several configurations - hardware and software - before I settled on the following setup:

Sensor

• Piezo transducer -> Arduino -> Ethernet shield
• ./gong_sensor_ethernet

IRC Gateway

• Node.js app running on my desktop iMac
• ./gong_bot_js

Crappy Code

There's code in here for other working, rubegoldbergesque, configurations:

Xbee-to-Ethernet

• Sensor

  • Pieze transducer -> Arduino -> Xbee
  • ./gong_sensor

• Receiver

  • Xbee -> Arduino -> Ethernet Shield
  • ./gong_receiver

• IRC Gateway

  • Perl script that listens for gong events on a TCP/IP socket
  • ./gong_bot

Xbee-to-Serial

• Sensor

  • Pieze transducer -> Arduino -> Xbee
  • ./gong_sensor

• Receiver

  • Xbee -> Arduino -> Serial USB
  • ./gong_receiver_serial

• IRC Gateway

  • Perl script that listens for gong events on serial /dev
  • ./gong_bot