Submission + - Slackbot - when Roomba, Arduino and a Tornado Siren meet in the office
Says Matt:
Slackbot is equipped with a Raspberry Pi which handles the bulk of the logic and guidance. The Pi uses Node.js and Festival Text-to-Speech processor hooked up to an amplified tornado siren for the
The Roomba is roughly driven to beacon(s) using BLE triangulation. The Spark Core (arduino w/ wifi) listens for
We mapped our office with 7 beacon locations which he uses to guide himself around. Our hacked Roomba orients himself towards specific beacons dependent on the incoming web hook commands. Aka, “:loudspeaker: it’s taco tuesday” passes “it’s taco tuesday” to the Raspberry Pi text-to-speech script processor and he attempts to navigate from beacon to beacon sequentially which covers the entire office.