The Sphero SPRK+ is a semi-low-priced, spherical robotic toy that can be driven from a phone app. But it also has a rich javascript API that can be used to drive parameters such as velocity, lights, sounds. It treats collisions as events, and can react to them.

So it should be programmable to work as an awesome cat toy.

I'll spend hack week working on making it respond to interactions with a cat. If successful, the deliverable will be a video of "Woof Woof" (our cat) interacting with it.

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