A project using an Alexa powered device to control a Lego Boots Robot. The Lego Boots robot is connected to Raspberry PI Zero using Bluetooth. Raspberry PI Zero is connected to the Internet.
- Lego Boots Robot
- Raspberry PI Zero or other device that can run node and is connected to the internet.
- AWS Account
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Create new folder called "certs" in the root and store the generated a certificate, public key, and private key using AWS IoT's certificate authority in AWS IoT Things page.
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Create a new file config.json in the root directory with following values and run npm install
{
"keyPath": "./certs/<Enter the name of the file generated in previous step>.key",
"certPath": "./certs/<Enter the name of the file generated in previous step>.crt",
"caPath": "./certs/<Enter the name of the file generated in previous step>.pem",
"SHADOWID": "PiZeroRobotHub",
"host": "<host for the device>"
}
- Create a new file config.json in the lambda/code with following values
{
"endpoint": "<host for the device>"
}
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Create a lambda with Alexa Skills Kit & AWS IoT using the code in folder lambda/code (don't forget to run npm install)
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Create new skill using the json file stored in the folder "Alexa" and point endpoint to the Lambda created in the previous step.
- On your Raspberry PI run the commmand
npm index.js - Say "Alexa. Open Amazing Robot" and follow the instructions.
- Connect
- Set the light to red
- Change color to red
- please can you spinner
- have a go at the driveroutine
- please can you drivesquary
- have a go at the shakinghead
