Tags / Artificial Intelligence
My Experience Building an Alexa Skill
- Headline: it is actually pretty easy
Back in November I attended a talk on creating your own Amazon Alexa Skill at Bristech. It’s been something I’ve wanted to play with for a while, so when Amazon had their Black Friday sale I couldn’t resist. I was pleasantly surprised by Amazon’s own tutorial using Lambda: Alexa Python Tutorial - Build a voice experience in 5 minutes or less. It really was quite simple and quick. Amazon have worked hard to make it easy for you to get a custom skill up and running on real hardware.
Published Jan 14, 2018
4 min read
internet of things
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artificial intelligence
Beginnings of a Programmable Drone
- The struggle to put code in the loop airside and ground side of an autonomous drone
I think it was the final episode in season 3 of Black Mirror that motivated me to start thinking about building a drone again. That episode - Hated in the Nation - involved swarms of autonomous drones deployed across the UK to replace recently deceased bee colonies. In this work of fiction the drones wreak havoc. However the connecting of computation and AI to real moving entities in our world really intrigued me.
Published Apr 23, 2017
3 min read
internet of things
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drone
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artificial intelligence