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

Check the test video.
https://youtu.be/TqP_HGcdzCo

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

https://www.npmjs.com/package/slackbots
https://www.npmjs.com/package/serialport
https://scotch.io/tutorials/building-a-slack-bot-with-node-js-and-chuck-norris-super-powers
http://arcbotics.com/lessons/sparki/