Bongo for Alexa

Inspiration

Wanted to learn a useful API and develop an Alexa application through the certification process.

What it does

Relays information about Iowa Bus times through amazon Alexa

How I built it

Multiple tutorials online and Alexa Dev community example code.

Challenges I ran into

Learning how to debug code within the AWS environment

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Accessing my first API successfully with 100% accuracy.

What I learned

How to call from the intent JSON structure

What's next for Bongo for Alexa

Updates to include location requests, instead of route requests. Continued dialog requests