Updates on the Verity slack bot!! (and before shipping)

Now Verity has 6 slash commands in total! Namely:

• /verity-help - Lists out available commands for Verity =)
• /verity-ping - Checks bot latency/verity-funfact - Gives a random fact that may or may not be fun
• /verity-8ball [add your question here] - Play a game of magic 8 ball with Verity =)
• /verity-jukebox [song name] by [artist] - Recommends a song based on your input curated by yours truly
• /verity-joke [canon] - Tells you a random joke (optionally add ‘canon’ if you want a canon response.)

Additionally, you can ask him any sort of question by pinging him like so: @/Verity how fast are minecarts? (without the slash, i don’t want to ping the person named verity 😭)

I initally wanted to use Spotify’s API for the music recommender, but it was locked behind a paywall </3 Luckily, last.fm’s API was not and it was super easy to use and I figured out how to use it in no time! (lie #3)

Also, I think I’ve finally figured out what the problem was last devlog (lie #4). I think I just forgot to install something on the server??? But no matter, now the bot can run till the end of time :D

I think this was an awesome experience, I’ve gotten used to calling APIs and I finally learned how to use .env files (yea I didn’t know their use before, oof…)

Updates on the Verity slack bot!! (and before shipping)

Now Verity has 6 slash commands in total! Namely:

• /verity-help - Lists out available commands for Verity =)
• /verity-ping - Checks bot latency/verity-funfact - Gives a random fact that may or may not be fun
• /verity-8ball [add your question here] - Play a game of magic 8 ball with Verity =)
• /verity-jukebox [song name] by [artist] - Recommends a song based on your input curated by yours truly
• /verity-joke [canon] - Tells you a random joke (optionally add ‘canon’ if you want a canon response.)

Additionally, you can ask him any sort of question by pinging him like so: @/Verity how fast are minecarts? (without the slash, i don’t want to ping the person named verity 😭)

I initally wanted to use Spotify’s API for the music recommender, but it was locked behind a paywall </3 Luckily, last.fm’s API was not and it was super easy to use and I figured out how to use it in no time! (lie #3)

Also, I think I’ve finally figured out what the problem was last devlog (lie #4). I think I just forgot to install something on the server??? But no matter, now the bot can run till the end of time :D

I think this was an awesome experience, I’ve gotten used to calling APIs and I finally learned how to use .env files (yea I didn’t know their use before, oof…)

I’m making a slack bot based on ThatMob’s Verity™ =)

I had no other reason to create a Verity slack bot other than: “You know what would be fun? RECREATING VERITY!!”

I initially had trouble setting up the Slack bot for no other reason other than I’m kind of dumb 💀, but everything from there was smooth sailing (lie #1).

For now, Verity can:

• be pinged
• give (not-so-fun) facts

I had to spend hours trying to figure out what was wrong with my code since Verity kept failing to respond, but it turns out that it was an issue with Nest and not me TT ((half-)lie #2) For some reason, it works perfectly fine when I host it locally, but when I host it on Nest it doesn’t work?? Anyone know why???

That’s all for now :p I’m still working on adding more commands

I’m making a slack bot based on ThatMob’s Verity™ =)

I had no other reason to create a Verity slack bot other than: “You know what would be fun? RECREATING VERITY!!”

I initially had trouble setting up the Slack bot for no other reason other than I’m kind of dumb 💀, but everything from there was smooth sailing (lie #1).

For now, Verity can:

• be pinged
• give (not-so-fun) facts

I had to spend hours trying to figure out what was wrong with my code since Verity kept failing to respond, but it turns out that it was an issue with Nest and not me TT ((half-)lie #2) For some reason, it works perfectly fine when I host it locally, but when I host it on Nest it doesn’t work?? Anyone know why???

That’s all for now :p I’m still working on adding more commands

I made this little schematic a while ago (when I wasn’t verified), but I’m not sure if it even works (if anyone wants to take a look and correct any errors, feel free to do so :D )

My plan for this hackpad (which I call the Click Clack Pad™ ) is that it will have 3 switches, 1 rotary encoder switch and an OLED that I can display my art on. (Possibly an audio visualizer too for my music?? That would be super cool!)

I’m pretty new to this kind of thing but I do have a flair for design (I think) and some experience working with an Arduino, it’s just the technicalities that make my head hurt a bit. But I’m here to get out of my comfort zone and make even cooler things (yippeee).

The Wakatime for KiCad was bugging out so unfortunately I’ve lost a few hours of time, but thankfully I switched to Lapse before I lost even more.

(P.S. I’ve already worked on the PCB, the casing is still in the works)

So yeah, see you in the next devlog :DD