The Button

A cool Arduino button that kicks Jennifer-Lawrence (or anyone!) on IRC.

[22:56:02] <tsahyt> lots of new ways to kick jlaw today
[22:56:03] <tsahyt> today is a good day

Hardware Requirements

• Big Red novelty button
• Arduino (as long as it has usb serial)
• 2 * 1k resistors
• 9+ male to male jumper cables
• Breadboard
• A will to live kick Jennifer-Lawrence

Software Requirements

• Python 2.7 with pip install PySerial
• weechat

Setup

For the actual hardware setup, diagrams, and fancy graphs, my actual assignment writeup is done on my blog.
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Installation

Make sure this project is cloned into ~/git, else the weechat script can't spawn the listener.
Make sure weechat is setup to automatically authenticate with nickserv, and join the correct channel.

cp the-button.py ~/.weechat/python/autoload/

Edit the settings in the-button.py and change the target channel, network, and user.

Contributions

Thanks to:

• Zac, from uni who half came up with the idea while waiting for next class.
• nils_2 in #weechat@freenode for pointing me in the right direction with weechat's scripting API
• A_Dragon on Snoonet for being the test punching bag
• sham1 and browndawg #linuxmasterrace@Snoonet trying to help me use C++ (and then not getting mad when I chucked all that code away)
• Jennifer-Lawrence in #linuxmasterrace@Snoonet because this just makes abusing you a lot more fun. (<.<)