hwping

IRC bot for HW pinging with the Dream Cheeky Thunder missile launcher.

The bot was tested on ruby 2.0.0-p643, but it should work with other versions. It uses libusb for the USB communication and cinch as the IRC client.

gem install hwping

hwping [options]

The bot uses ./config.yml as a configuration file, which is automatically saved upon exit. An alternative configuration file can be specified with the -c/--config-file argument.

The default settings are those:

---
nick: hwping
server: irc.freenode.net
port: 6667
channels: # an array of channels to listen without the beginning # symbol
  - hwping-test
auth_nicks: # an array of nicks to obey
targets: # a hash in {nick => [x, y]} format specifying the possible targets
webcam:
  path: /tmp # the folder where the image will be saved

• hwping <nick> - fire a rocket at <nick> when he has been set as a target and is present in the channel's user list

• help - displays a help text
• snap - creates a snapshot with the attached webcamera and returns with its URL
• panorama - creates a panorama with the attached webcamera and returns with its URL
• fire - fires a rocket
• reset - resets the launcher into the default position (bottom-left)
• position - returns the actual position of the rocket launcher
• <direction> <ms> - rotates the launcher into the given direction (up, down, left, right) for the given milliseconds
• target list - displays the list of the available targets
• target get <nick> - displays the coordinates of <nick>
• target del <nick> - deletes the coordinates of <nick>
• target set <nick> - sets the coordinates of <nick> to the actual position
• target set <nick> <X> <Y> - sets the coordinates of <nick> to right(X), up(Y)

• Listen to a nick other than hwping
• High-precision timer for better positioning
• Event-based solution instead of threads
• Add a superuser to modify the list of authorized users during runtime

This project is released under the GPLv2 license.

The launcher code in lib/hwping/launcher.rb was inspired by robhurring/thunder.