Robonaut

irccat is now running on Babbage, to help link IRC to things happening in the space

It's called robonaut. If you wish to add commands to it, drop scripts in /usr/share/irccat on Babbage.

Robonaut Commands

Robonaut will respond to the commands below either publicly in the irc channel or privately. To get robonaut to respond publicly simply send one of the commands prefixed with a ? e.g. ?beacons. For a private response use /msg e.g. /msg robonaut ?dc

Really useful commands

• beacons - Flashes lights within the space to attract attention.
• board - Change message on the message board, syntax ?board[ message]. An empty message will clear the board.
• commands - robonaut will PM you a list of all available commands.
• laser - current laser status. To change status ?laser <message>
• makerbot - current makerbot status. To change status ?makerbot <message>

Not so useful commands

• access - Provides a link to the wiki, with info about how to get there, access and facilities.
• ampm - Tells you if it's morning or afternoon. Was created when everyone used to say "Morning" whenever they came on IRC.
• babel - Uses Google translate to automatically translate text. Use [from]|[to] before the text to specify language.
• beacon - a symlink to beacons.
• cancer - simply prints hi..., as people who abuse the bot are the cancer that's killing IRC - marked for possible archiving.
• cc - generates credit card numbers that pass the MOD 10 check (Luhn formula). Pass [visa|mastercard|amex] for certain formats.
• coffee - provides a link to a google map of coffee shops in London from http://worldbaristachampionship.com/
• date - provides the Never Ending September Date
• daysofar - links to the last 24hrs of webcam feed from the space.
• dc - gives details of the next dc4420 event.
• define - pass in a word to get the definition from urbandictionary.com
• donate - points to github and the source of a donation page, until it's re-added to the members page.
• echo
• fight
• following
• hax
• hits
• info
• join
• journeytoalphacentauri
• kegerator
• keyholders
• klingon
• last24
• layzor
• lightsoff
• lightson
• man
• map
• meet
• members
• meter
• monthly
• notify
• phone
• ping
• procexp
• ps
• quote
• reports
• roulette
• setBoard
• shutup-dev
• slamthedoor
• spies
• summon-dev
• swap
• time
• unwatch
• users
• vrms
• watch
• waxon
• where
• who
• wiki
• workshops
• tube - gets the London Underground status - PM ?tube list for a list of available lines
• morning - plays the first few seconds of Edvard Grieg - Morning Mood, and cycles the light through dawny colours, and sets the board to say "Good Morning, hackspace"
• patriot - initiates enforced patriotism mode