Mastering Alexa

Name: Mastering Alexa
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Customize Alexa to the next level by integrating APIs and AWS IoT along with Alexa Skills.

Created byVenkatesh Varadachari, Haresh Arunachalam

Last updated 3/2018

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What you'll learn

You will be able to integrate API along with an Alexa Skill
You will be able to integrate AWS IoT with an Alexa Skill
You will be able to connect a web application to an Alexa Skill using Amazon Cognito and AWS IoT
You will be able to control any existing web application using an Alexa skill
You will be able to control Raspberry pi 3 with an Alexa skill using AWS IoT

Course content

6 sections • 21 lectures • 2h 18m total length

Introduction3:24
This lecture will introduce the course and explains the structure of the course.
Course Outcomes and Prerequisites1:50
This lecture will provide the list of course outcomes and prerequisites.

Introduction to Date Skill3:42
This lecture, introduces the date skill and briefly explains about APIs.
Accessing the Wikipedia API: API call using the https module5:59
This lecture, accesses the Wikipedia API using the https module and the complete data is logged on the console.
Accessing the Wikipedia API: Parsing JSON data10:42
This lecture, a node module for accessing only the desired data by parsing will be built and tested
Building the Alexa Skill10:36
In this lecture, we will build the date skill using the node module that accesses Wikipedia API.
Adding additional node modules and testing the Skill7:28
This lecture, helps in adding additional node modules in the Lambda function over the blueprint, without over writing the existing node modules and test the date skill.
Student Project

Introduction to AWS IoT8:53
This lecture introduces to the AWS IoT and briefly explain the features of AWS IoT.
Thing and Thing Shadow6:49
This lecture will briefly introduce about Things and Thing Shadows.
Building a simple Web-App thing: Part 18:01
This lecture will cover a part of building a Web application as a Thing in AWS IoT.
Building a simple Web-App thing: Part 27:46
This lecture will complete the building of a Web application as a Thing in AWS IoT.
Building the Alexa Skill10:15
In this lecture, we will build the Simple IoT skill and test the skill.

Introducing the Color Game web Application8:50
This lecture introduces the Color game web application that we will control using an Alexa skill.
Color Game as the Web app thing2:55
This lecture highlights the changes that are required in the web application to connect as a Thing to the AWS IoT
Building the Alexa skill8:31
In this lecture, we will build the color game skill and test the skill.
Student Project

Introduction to Raspberry pi-car skill2:48
This lecture introduces the Raspberry pi car skill and all the hardware required for building the skill
Controlling a DC motor7:26
In this lecture, we will control a DC motor using the L293D and Raspberry pi.
Controlling the Raspberry pi Car6:21
In this lecture, we will control a Raspberry pi car that is built using two DC motors.
Connecting the raspberry pi as a Thing9:21
In this lecture, we will connect the Raspberry pi as a thing to the AWS IoT.
Building the Alexa Skill7:22
In this lecture, we will build the Raspberry pi car skill and test the skill.
Student Project

Requirements

Basics of Alexa Skill development
Knowledge of using Alexa Skills Kit - Skill Development Kit (ASK-SDK, NodeJS) for Skill development
Basics of Raspberry Pi, which is required only for the last section of the course

Description

Hello learners, this is an Intermediate level course on Alexa Skills Development, which will enhance your knowledge on building Alexa Skills, as you will learn about integrating APIs, Web applications, Raspberry pi 3 and AWS IoT along with an Alexa Skill.

The course begins with the date skill, a skill that will interact with the Wikipedia API to get useful information of a date. After that, a simple IoT Skill, which will help you understand the basics of interacting with AWS IoT. Then, the color game skill, where you will build an Interactive web game with an Alexa Skill, which will help you understand the changes required for controlling an existing web application using an Alexa skill. Lastly, the Raspberry pi-car skill, where you will learn to control the Raspberry pi-car using an Alexa Skill through AWS IoT.

The course gives detailed explanations for all the coding involved in developing these Alexa Skills and also has few projects that can help you to practice and master the concepts by yourself. While doing the projects and going through the course, you can feel free to ask your doubts on the Udemy discussion forum. You will get a response within one working day. Thank you and have a nice time learning.

Who this course is for:

Anyone who wants to learn to integrate Alexa Skills with APIs.
Anyone who wants to explore AWS IoT
Anyone who wants to control Web Applications using Alexa Skills and AWS IoT.
Anyone who wants to control the Raspberry Pi using Alexa Skills and AWS IoT.

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Course content

Introduction2 lectures • 5min

Date Skill5 lectures • 38min

AWS IoT5 lectures • 42min

Color Game Skill3 lectures • 20min

Raspberry Pi Car Skill5 lectures • 33min

Conclusion1 lecture0

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