Integrating Amazon Alexa One of the most exciting features of the Arduino IoT Cloud is its integration with Amazon Alexa. This allows you to control your Arduino devices using voice commands.

You no longer have to manually enable Alexa skills before you use them. Just tell Alexa to open a new skill and it will find, enable and open it with a single command.

Ars Technica's Sean Gallagher demonstrates how he connected the Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Teddy Ruxpin and Alexa to create "Bearlexa", to animate the bear when using Amazon's Alexa.

This hack puts them together to use an Alexa voice command to open and close your blinds. DIY hacker Yavin0427 demonstrates the sweet setup in the video above.

Ars Technica's Sean Gallagher demonstrates how he connected the Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Teddy Ruxpin and Alexa to create "Bearlexa", to animate the bear when using Amazon's Alexa.

By trialing this integration with Alexa, Synchron aims to expand the possibilities for smart home automation, enabling patients to use their thoughts to interact with a wide range of Alexa ...

Using a USB-C phone with Power Delivery is ideal here, as it allows the phone to be powered while also communicating with the Arduino over USB. The RemoteXY app is built specifically for this purpose.