Marvin the paranoid laptop -- an Internet of Things enabled laptop, which you can chat to at http://pachubelaptop.appspot.com/

1. Marvin the Paranoid Laptop
by his owner @snim2
http://pachubelaptop.appspot.com/
http://github.com/snim2/
http://snim2.org/
@snim2
#pachubehacks

2. Marvin the Paranoid Android (Wikipedia)

3. This is my laptop battery status, temperature, load average

4. This is my laptop battery status, temperature, load average

5. Example chat session
Puny human: how are you?
Marvin: Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of
water?
Puny human: status
Marvin: Current battery capacity is 26365mWh out of a capacity of
26365mWh that's 100%Currently at 65.0C. When I get topic 107.0 I
blow up.Currently working at 76.0% load. Call that reasonable
working conditions? I don't.
Puny human: is your battery full
Marvin: Current battery capacity is 26365mWh out of a capacity of
26365mWh that's 100%
Puny human: working hard today
Marvin: Currently working at 76.0% load. Call that reasonable
working conditions? I don't.

7. The chat interface has to be responsive,
so, every ten minutes we fetch the Pachube feed....

8. ...and scrape them into the App Engine datastore

9. Timetable
20:00 Laptop feed sending date to Pachube
Think about what to do with it...
22:00 Registered bot with imified.com
23:00 Basic phono.js web interface to imified.com working,
chatbot says "Hello world"
03:10 App Engine datastore starts scraping Pachube feed
04:30 Standard AIML kernel working with PyAIML
05:00 -- 09:00 Sleep
Today! Crude Marvins-specific AIML, tied to datastore

10. What's left to do?
More laptop data: uptime, face recognition, ...
More sophisticated AI answers
Web searches, Bayesian learning...