Here is a video of me running Amazon‘s Alexa service on my raspberry pi. Step by step directions for the raspberry pi can be found on GitHub. This was a fun project to do and quite simple. I now have an Amazon Alexa whenever I want as long as I have a raspberry pi. Unfortunately you can’t play music using your voice currently, but you can send music to it using the Amazon Alexa App. I mostly use this to set alarms, set reminders, check traffic, read personalized news, and ask an occasional question with limited results. Let me know how you use your Amazon Alexa service in the comments.

Update – On reddit I was pointed to an updated GitHub repository where some of the issues I have been facing have been worked out – https://github.com/sammachin/AlexaPi

Update – https://github.com/sammachin/AlexaPi

GitHub – https://github.com/alexa/alexa-avs-sample-app/wiki/Raspberry-Pi

Raspberry Pi 3 – http://amzn.to/2gmneAh

Lego Case – http://amzn.to/2g8umNJ

USB Mic – http://amzn.to/2gMmNfz