{"id":15615,"date":"2016-09-30T15:43:35","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T14:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15615"},"modified":"2016-09-30T15:43:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T14:43:35","slug":"office-memos-on-slack-driven-from-a-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15615","title":{"rendered":"Office memos on Slack driven from a Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/3UuoJWXEYQB6gpFsYdVeEG9iD_bZNwCDZuALRI3_nqAu5AOdJqZ-KxWFj1FWwpWRgnr8RDlfm46Sp6DuREoJ_PV8TBKEqcYV71lFxbu9oReA2X9VrdyBly1COcRHslny7pPVU9kx\" alt=\"\" width=\"547\" height=\"123\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nate Welch over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkatechture.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arkatechture<\/a>\u00a0(bet\u00a0<em>that&#8217;s<\/em> nice to have to spell every time! ;-)) has blogged about some integration they&#8217;ve done between instant messenger app Slack and one of their Raspberry Pis. The Pi is hooked up to sensors that detect when fresh coffee or popcorn is made and then uses the Slack API to generate a memo which is posted to everyone in the Slack group. The <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/flygoing\/FreshPots\" target=\"_blank\">code is available on GitHub<\/a>\u00a0and you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkatechture.com\/blog\/office-intelligence-slack-notifications-for-coffee\" target=\"_blank\">read more on their blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nate Welch over at Arkatechture\u00a0(bet\u00a0that&#8217;s nice to have to spell every time! ;-)) has blogged about some integration they&#8217;ve done between instant messenger app Slack and one of their Raspberry Pis. The Pi is hooked up to sensors that detect&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15615\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25,26,62,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-automation","category-internet-of-things","category-sensors","category-software"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Office memos on Slack driven from a Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15615\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Office memos on Slack driven from a Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nate Welch over at Arkatechture\u00a0(bet\u00a0that&#8217;s nice to have to spell every time! ;-)) has blogged about some integration they&#8217;ve done between instant messenger app Slack and one of their Raspberry Pis. 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