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.

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.

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.

You can use Alexa on your Amazon Echo to make calls without a mobile number or landline? Here's how.

If you use Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, take a minute or two to learn these tricks. Your future self will thank you.