Posts tagged bots
Recent communication apps, like Slack, have lowered the barrier of entry for the use of bots to increase productivity. There are many techniques that I, personally, have tried in the past for time management, but none that I ever ended up fully adopting. Despite that, I always have been fascinated with what my colleagues were […]
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Pom & Circumstance: Announcing Pombot for tracking time and productivity in Slack - Tagged in:
- bots,
- chatter,
- pombot,
- productivity,
- slack
We’ve long been making bots with hardware, now we’re making them with software too! They started as simple one-off “report bots.” Basically, helpful commands that anyone in our Slack could use to show useful information like who’s out on a given day, or how much vacation time we’ve taken. We also made a bot where […]
Continue Reading Announcing Chatter: a library for making interactive chat bots on slack and more Today, we’re proud to announce the launch of the Johnny-Five Inventor’s Kit! You can head over to Sparkfun’s blog to read the full announcement from our very own Jory Burson, but here’s the quick version: After years of working to make it possible for people from all backgrounds to program hardware with JavaScript, we’ve collaborated […]
Continue Reading J5 Alive! Announcing the Johnny-Five Inventor’s Kit from Bocoup and Sparkfun - Tagged in:
- bots,
- johnny-five
This year Intel and Bocoup joined forces to show what you can do at home with the Intel Edison and Johnny-Five. We built a roving robot with streaming video and touchscreen controls in a few days using off-the-shelf parts and under 600 lines of code. We named it Reconbot. Build and drive a robot with […]
Continue Reading Making the Reconbots for Intel at Maker Faire Bay Area 2016 - Tagged in:
- bots,
- conferences
