Alexa Voice Service

TL;DR: Amazon’s Alexa is cool. I wrote some code to talk to it.

Updated: March 27, 2016

Amazon has released a very good demo and guide for turning a Raspberry Pi into an Alexa Voice Service device on Github. In particular, the README file has very detailed sections on how to setup your Raspberry Pi and how to get started with Alexa Voice Service, which I did not cover in detail in...

I Got Pi, Now What?

When I got the email that my Raspberry Pi had been delivered, I was really excited to get home and unbox it :)

Everything was super simple to setup.

• Put the Pi in the case
• Put the SD card in the Pi
• Plug in USB WiFi dongle, keyboard, mouse, HDMI cable, and power it on (it’s alive!)

In fact, it was so quick and...

Valentine's Pi

I’ve been interested with the Raspberry Pi since the original was released back in 2012. Every now-and-then a Pi project shows up in my Twitter or RSS feed and they’re always so cool! They usually land in two camps, the easy-to-achieve (e.g. retro gaming system, HTPC systems) and the not-so-easy (e.g. magic mirror).

The dilemma I had (personally) was:

1. The easy-to-achieve didn’t really require a Pi. I had enough computers at home to do the same...
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