Table tennis robot - NodeMcu - 7 motors

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Now, furobot is also enabled to receive voice commands with Amazon Echo.

e.g. Alexa! Turn oscillation on
Alexa! Turn furobot off

DIY Table Tennis Robot homemade voice controlled

How to do it is very well explained in this post:

Amazon Echo ESP8266 control, with natural speech commands

For about a month, I’ve been using Blynk with the IFTTT Maker Channel to connect projects to my Amazon echo. The thing that bugs me is that the Maker Channel requires the use of the word “trigger.” This makes for some awkward commands. Instead of saying “Alexa, turn on the bedroom lights,” I’m forced to say “Alexa, TRIGGER the bedroom lights on.” However, the Echo has native integration with certain products (among them, the Belkin Wemo) that allow natural voice commands. The downside is that a…