Announcing the food button project!

The food button is a method to alert fellow ACM members that there is food present in the office (we may need some legislation passed about usage). When the button is pressed:

1. Controller (beaglebone) recognizes the event and snaps a photo of the food station
2. The photo is emailed to everybody on the acm food (idk if this actually exists) list serv…and maybe twitter
   • Reason: Ha, you realize we’re sigdave right? (we should probably explain what SigDave is about somewhere on this site)
   • Goals: See Reason

Parts

• Red mushroom button
• BeagleBone black (we’re over the Pi)
• Cheap webcam
• Beacon Light (optional)

DJ Roomba Updates

Classic Controller

I tested with my classic controller…here’s some notes - permission issues…udev rules need to set mode to 0644 - just acts as a seperate character device