{"id":23944,"date":"2016-03-28T15:01:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T22:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/?p=23944"},"modified":"2016-03-28T15:01:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T22:01:39","slug":"want-a-cheap-amazon-echo-build-one-with-a-raspberry-pi-for-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/want-a-cheap-amazon-echo-build-one-with-a-raspberry-pi-for-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Want a cheap Amazon Echo? Build one with a $40 Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Interested in using the Alexa voice assistant on the\u00a0Amazon Echo, but you don’t want to spend $180 to do it? An Amazon employee (Amit Jotwani) recently published a guide on creating your own homemade\u00a0Amazon Echo using a\u00a0$40 Raspberry Pi Model 2 along with a SD card, a\u00a0USB microphone and a few other inexpensive items.<\/p>\n

Detailed on GitHub, the guide<\/a> walks a user through building the hardware as well as taking a step-by-step guide through programming the software to access the Amazon Alexa interface. Optional hardware includes a\u00a0WiFi Wireless Adapter (if you aren’t hard-wiring the device to your router and want to place it anywhere in your home. Of course, you will also need a USB keyboard \/ mouse as well as a HDMI monitor to run through\u00a0the setup process.<\/p>\n

Of course, this is somewhat more similar to the hockey puck-sized Echo Dot than the full-fledged Echo. Integrating the homemade version into a powered speaker system would be preferably for music playback. Identical to the other Echo products, Alexa will answer questions, set timers & alarms as well as play music accessible on the home’s network.<\/p>\n

Check Out the DIY Amaozn Echo Guide on GitHub<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

If you are interested in reading about the differences between all of Amazon’s Alexa-enabled devices, you can read a comparison of the devices here:\u00a0Amazon Echo vs Amazon Tap vs Echo Dot<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interested in using the Alexa voice assistant on the\u00a0Amazon Echo, but you don’t want to spend $180 to do it? An Amazon employee (Amit Jotwani) recently published a guide on creating your own homemade\u00a0Amazon Echo using a\u00a0$40 Raspberry Pi Model 2 along with a SD card, a\u00a0USB microphone and a few other inexpensive items. Detailed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1502,537,1501,1515,1516,808],"class_list":["post-23944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesomeness","tag-alexa","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-tap","tag-echo","tag-echo-dot","tag-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23944"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23950,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23944\/revisions\/23950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}