Google+ Hangout Extension - Arduino Example

Based off of the code by John Schimmel node-session, used it for the Robot Party Robot Controller extension and the RoboBrrd Brrd Feeder extension! Here is a basic Arduino demo that can help get you up and running with your own Hangout robots!

There are four main parts to this:

• web app (node.js running on ec2, has tcp & web sockets)
• processing sketch (listening to tcp socket, serial conn to arduino)
• arduino (listening to serial for messages, performs actions)
• google+ hangout (hangout.xml showing iframe)

useful for setup

• ec2:

  • https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/

• ec2 - network & security

  • -> security groups
  • add 2 ports for your websocket and tcp socket

• google apis:

  • https://code.google.com/apis/console/

ec2 & node.js info

• 'diy node.js server' -- follow this up to installing nginx

• 'node.js server and web sockets' -- follow this from install & configure HAProxy

• 'how i got node.js running on a linux micro instance' -- from the forever part:

robots & google+ hangouts info

• oscar robot

• running hangout apps

• writing hangout apps

misc info

Just some notes that I jotted down while making this which might be helpful

• permissions for keypair:

  • chmod folder to 700
  • chmod file to 600

• add keypair:

  • ssh-add /Users/frankenteddy/Documents/keypair/coolioeskeypair.pem

• extension iframe size:

  • 300 x 732 px

Robot Party

Hope to see ya at the ROBOT PARTY!