Inspiration
Amazon Echo's Alexa voice assistant is the perfect low-barrier entry point for senior citizens to communicate well with technology.
What it does
Pillzio allows users to track their medications online through a web app, and Alexa manages your daily dosages and missed doses in order to keep caregivers in the loop while sustaining the user's independence.
How I built it
Node.js - Routing/Back end Express - Front end for web app Pug - HTML template engine Twilio - API for caregiver texts Alexa SDK - Alexa Voice Skill AWS Lambda - Alexa back end logic
Challenges I ran into
Creating post requests with Alexa is incredibly difficult (nested continuations) with the current SDK.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
It was very rewarding once the voice assistant was able to full communicate the server with all API endpoint requests.
What I learned
Alexa HTTP requests, HTML templating engines like Jade/Pug
What's next for Pillzio
Expanding features to include personal medication tracking and a child-centered mode.
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