Introduction

In slack world, everyone can generate own bot service.
And here is the Sparki(powered by Arduino). Sparki is a robot.

Let's combine the services. You can control Sparki from slack.
On this project, i made him a Coffee delivery robot.
He gets all your orders, responds to your questions and deliver a coffee to your place, gently.

It's working

1. New order comes from my boss! Sparki responds.
   TODO: Movie
   
2. Sparki arrived at a pot, and calls me. I cook a coffee and give him.
   TODO: Movie
   
3. Now Sparki is delivering a coffee to my boss. I hope my boss is patient...
   TODO: Movie
4. My boss seems to be inpatient... He asked Sparki what he's doing right now.
   TODO: Movie
5. Phew! It was long way! Here is your coffee. I'm going to back home. Bye!
   TODO: Movie
6. I arrived at home now. Waiting next order.
   TODO: Movie

Ingredients

• Sparki
  • Five Infrared sensors for line following
  • Ultrasonic sensor for detecting whether robot has a coffee
  • Beep for notifying that robot reaches each terminals.
  • Sparki arms for hodling a coffee cup
  • Serial Communication via Bluetooth
• slack
  • Bot Service
• Node.js Server (Mac OS X)
  • Serial Communication via Bluetooth
  • Kicking Slack Bot API
  • State management/Control for Sparki

Recipe

1. Create a sample project that Sparki and Node.js can communicate via Bluetooth.
   
2. Create a sample project that slack and Node.js can communicate via slack API.
   
3. Mix 1. and 2.
   You can download all sources from here.
   

References

TODO: from dev memo