Paul's Geek Dad Blog

I'm a Dad and a Geek. My blog is about teaching my kids to be producers, not just consumers of technology. My tinkering exists somewhere at the intersection between home automation, the internet of things, the maker movement and fitness. It's a nice place to be!

Saturday, 4 February 2017

Alexa Skill Using A Custom Slot

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In a previous blog post I wrote about using the Alexa Skills Kit "slot" concept to send information to the function that processe...
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Wednesday, 1 February 2017

First Look at the BBC Micro:bit

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This blog was supposed to be about getting my kids to code and explore electronics.  Recently it's focused on other things so it was gre...
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Monday, 30 January 2017

Alexa "Movie Expert" Skill Using a Slot, Python and the OMDB API

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More on my series of blog posts on using the Amazon Echo Dot and creating Alexa skills. After creating my last Alexa skill that used Pyt...
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Monday, 23 January 2017

Amazon Alexa Skill with Python and Strava API

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In my last post I described how I'd followed a step-by-step guide to create a Amazon Alexa Skill for my Amazon Echo Dot .  This used No...
Sunday, 15 January 2017

My First Amazon Alexa Skill

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Recently I bought an Amazon Echo Dot as my colleagues had been raving about them.  Oh, my, what an excellent piece of kit it is.  As long a...
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Sunday, 8 January 2017

Using the Resources of the Fitbit API

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In previous posts I've covered the basics of using a Raspberry Pi and the Fitbit API to extract and analyse the data created by a Fitbi...

10 Most Boring Things Video

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My children watch a lot of YouTube videos.  (Some might say too many).  Some of the videos are along the lines of "10 most awesome <...
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