Announce gong strikes in IRC

The goal of this project is simple: Announce nerf-to-gong interactions in IRC.

The @blip office has several characteristics that made this project a necessity:

1. Gongs. We have two of them.
2. Nerf guns. We have way more than two of them.
3. IRC. We only have one IRC server, but it has lots of users

This project went through several configurations - hardware and software - before I settled on the following setup:

• Piezo transducer -> Arduino -> Ethernet shield
• ./gong_sensor_ethernet

• Node.js app running on my desktop iMac
• ./gong_bot_js

There's code in here for other working, rubegoldbergesque, configurations:

• Sensor

  • Pieze transducer -> Arduino -> Xbee
  • ./gong_sensor

• Receiver

  • Xbee -> Arduino -> Ethernet Shield
  • ./gong_receiver

• IRC Gateway

  • Perl script that listens for gong events on a TCP/IP socket
  • ./gong_bot

• Sensor

  • Pieze transducer -> Arduino -> Xbee
  • ./gong_sensor

• Receiver

  • Xbee -> Arduino -> Serial USB
  • ./gong_receiver_serial

• IRC Gateway

  • Perl script that listens for gong events on serial /dev
  • ./gong_bot