{"id":55262,"date":"2016-05-23T15:14:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T19:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=55262"},"modified":"2016-05-23T16:03:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T20:03:24","slug":"reflections-on-now-you-can-build-your-own-amazon-echo-at-home-and-amazon-couldnt-be-happier-coren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2016\/05\/23\/reflections-on-now-you-can-build-your-own-amazon-echo-at-home-and-amazon-couldnt-be-happier-coren\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on &#8220;Now you can build your own Amazon Echo at home &#8212; and Amazon couldn\u2019t be happier&#8221; [Coren]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/689585\/now-you-can-build-your-own-amazon-echo-at-home-and-amazon-couldnt-be-happier\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Now you can build your own Amazon Echo at home\u2014and Amazon couldn\u2019t be happier<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from qz.com by\u00a0Michael Coren<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Amazon\u2019s $180 Echo and the new Google Home (due out later this year) promise voice-activated assistants that order groceries, check calendars and perform sundry tasks of your everyday life. Now, with a little initiative and some online instructions, you can build the devices yourself for a fraction of the cost. And that\u2019s just fine with the tech giants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">At this weekend\u2019s Bay Area Maker Faire, Arduino, an open-source electronics manufacturer, announced new hardware \u201cboards\u201d\u2014bundles of microprocessors, sensors, and ports\u2014that will ship with voice and gesture capabilities, along with wifi and bluetooth connectivity. By plugging them into the free voice-recognition services offered by Google\u2019s Cloud Speech API and Amazon\u2019s Alexa Voice Service, anyone can access world-class natural language processing power, and tap into the benefits those companies are touting. Amazon has even released its own blueprint and code repository to build a $60 version of its Echo using Raspberry Pi, another piece of open-source hardware.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Perhaps this type of endeavor could find its way into some project-based learning out there, as well as in:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Some Computer Science-related courses<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Some Engineering-related courses<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">User Experience Design bootcamps<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Makerspaces<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Programs targeted at gifted students<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Other&#8230;??<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now you can build your own Amazon Echo at home\u2014and Amazon couldn\u2019t be happier &#8212; from qz.com by\u00a0Michael Coren Excerpt: Amazon\u2019s $180 Echo and the new Google Home (due out later this year) promise voice-activated assistants that order groceries, check calendars and perform sundry tasks of your everyday life. Now, with a little initiative and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,354,556,356,208,45,82,63,3,373,391,180,482,276,46,76,309,204,305,312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-av-audiovisual","category-amazon","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-cloud-based-computing-apps","category-computer-science","category-engineering","category-google","category-higher-education","category-homeschoolinghomeschoolers","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-innovation","category-intelligent-systems","category-interactivity","category-k-12-related","category-open-courseware-and-systems","category-platforms","category-programming","category-project-based-learning","category-user-experience-ux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55266,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55262\/revisions\/55266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}