About the Project
Objective: Raspberry Pi should run python scripts when indicated by Alexa via voice activation.
Summary
As our first milestone, we wanted to establish a connection between the raspberry pi and Alexa. We did that using the Alexa skill console, the raspberry pi, and python libraries installed using pip. Amongst those libraries were ngrok, flask-ask, and crytography.
For the second milestone, we needed Alexa to start running scripts hosted on the raspberry pi. The main thing here was figuring out what exactly we wanted Alexa to do that she doesn't already have programmed. For that, we decided to go with a blood sugar script where Alexa would simply tell you "your" blood sugar reading. This is done using randomly generated numbers in a range that was researched to keep it reasonable.
For the last milestone, we wanted to have a complete and polished project, so we made finishing touches such as creating a GUI, refining the script, and adding the simulated results to a graph shown below that updates by the hour and/or day.
Our Team
"Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success"