3. Quick Intro…
I’m Brett Davis and I’m a consultant at
Fusion Alliance for the past 4 years.
I’m still in the process of learning how to
create Alexa Skills and using Amazon Web
Services.
I’m also a cat owner.
5. Build your own Echo Device
How to Build Your Own Amazon Echo with a Raspberry Pi
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-build-your-own-amazon-echo-with-a-raspberry-pi-
1787726931
Here’s how to make a DIY Amazon Echo
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/6/13/15787808/amazon-echo-alexa-diy-
raspberry-pi-matrix-creator-how-to
Can’t Wait for Your Echo Show? Build Your Own!
https://blog.hackster.io/cant-wait-for-your-echo-show-build-your-own-14e59c6bd769
6. Alexa Skill Development
Creating Alexa Skills is a great way to learn AWS! If
you build an Alexa Skill, you can learn AWS Lamba
Functions, AWS DynamoDB, AWS S3 Storage, and
other AWS services.
7. Alexa Skill Development
AWS Lamba Functions – Is an event-driven,
serverless computing plaform.
AWS DynamoDB – It is a noSQL database service.
AWS S3 Storage – The file storage service.
8. Alexa Skill Development
The costs of AWS are almost free!
In the AWS free tier, a users is given 1,000,000 AWS Lamba Requests a month.
https://aws.amazon.com/free/
If your skill becomes really popular and it starts to cost money, AWS will give you
$100 a month credit.
https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit/alexa-aws-credits/
9. Alexa Skill Development
It is recommend that you have an Echo Device for testing purposes.
Amazon has developed a tool for testing Alexa Skills if you do not have an Alexa
Device.
https://echosim.io/
10. Alexa Skill Development
You can get some really cool swag for developing an Alexa Skill!
https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit/alexa-developer-skill-promotion
11. Alexa Skill Development
Let’s look at some code!
The Deck of Cards workout is based off this
codepen:
https://codepen.io/brettdavis4/pen/KXOeOz
This sample is based off of the Alexa Local
Recommendations App:
https://github.com/alexa/alexa-
cookbook/tree/master/labs/LocalRecommendations
12. Alexa Skill Development
How to program – Amazon Echo: Design, Development and Testing Alexa Skills
https://www.amazon.com/How-Program-Amazon-Echo-Development-ebook/dp/B011J6AP26
Alexa Github
https://github.com/alexa
Alexa Labs
https://github.com/alexa/alexa-cookbook/tree/master/labs
Alexa Tutorials
https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit/tutorials#Beginner
Alexa Facebook Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/303064340153583/
Alexa Code Academy Tutorial
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-alexa
Quik Lab Training Website:
https://amazon-run.qwiklab.com
YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/AmazonWebServices
Hinweis der Redaktion
Echo, New Echo, Echo Plus, Echo Dot, Echo Tab, Echo Look, Echo Spot, Echo Show