{"id":16067,"date":"2016-12-11T18:23:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T17:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16067"},"modified":"2016-12-11T18:23:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T17:23:58","slug":"build-an-amazon-alexa-controlled-raspberry-pi-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16067","title":{"rendered":"Build an Amazon Alexa-controlled Raspberry Pi robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/32414320wji53mwwch1u68ce-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Alexabot-Schematic-1024x359.jpg?resize=560%2C196&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"196\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The guys over at Dexter Industries have put together a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dexterindustries.com\/shop\/gopigo-kit\/\" target=\"_blank\">GoPiGo kit<\/a>\u00a0and then loaded onto it several pieces of software that allow you to issue voice commands to your robot. It&#8217;s a little laggy, due to the amount of inter-connection going on between the software, but it&#8217;s still a lovely project. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dexterindustries.com\/projects\/alexabot-amazon-alexa-controlled-robot\/\" target=\"_blank\">Take a look here and how it&#8217;s done<\/a>\u00a0and see it in action below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alexabot: Amazon Alexa Controlled Robot With the Raspberry Pi\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jiZiNbABGfw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The guys over at Dexter Industries have put together a GoPiGo kit\u00a0and then loaded onto it several pieces of software that allow you to issue voice commands to your robot. It&#8217;s a little laggy, due to the amount of inter-connection&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16067\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,49,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics","category-software","category-tutorials"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Build an Amazon Alexa-controlled Raspberry Pi robot - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16067\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Build an Amazon Alexa-controlled Raspberry Pi robot - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The guys over at Dexter Industries have put together a GoPiGo kit\u00a0and then loaded onto it several pieces of software that allow you to issue voice commands to your robot. 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