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#Amazon
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wait wait it's not April 1 yet! "Amazon is opening its first physical bookstore tomorrow" http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/2/9661556/amazon-books-first-physical-bookstore-opening-seattle @verge @jake_k -
This is a great hack of the Amazon Dash button. Just tried it out and it worked the first time! :-) https://medium.com/@edwardbenson/how-i-hacked-amazon-s-5-wifi-button-to-track-baby-data-794214b0bdd8 Now how many Dash buttons will Amazon let me order...
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So far, Amazon Echo has been most useful for: 1) setting timers while cooking, 2) turning off the lights after I am in bed, 3) adding things to my grocery list.
Now that the SDK is available in beta, what kind of voice-enabled apps should I make! The prompts are somewhat limiting, basically the below with some variations:
• "Alexa, ask {app name} to {command}"
• "Alexa, launch {app name} and {command}" -
okay, so saying "Alexa, turn off the bedroom lights" is pretty magical. #amazon #echo #homeautomation
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Disassembling the Dash (www.bitsofcents.com)
At the heart of the Dash is a USI (Avnet) 850101. The 850101 is a combination wireless module (Broadcom BCM43362) and micro controller (ST Microelectronics STM32F205). This makes the Dash capable of connecting to 802.11 b/g/n networks with its 120MHz ARM Cortex-M3 processor. It also happens to be exactly the same chip used inside the $19 Spark Photon.
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Turns out Amazon is the grinch that stole Christmas. Definitely feel for all the AWS ops people right now http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/24/netflix-crippled-on-christmas-eve-by-aws-outages/
