Happy Camper

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  Our Skill on the Alexa Skills Store

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  Testing an utterance

Inspiration

We love camping, and would like to make it easy for others to get camping information.

What it does

Uses the Active Api to get information for the user such as...

• Campground Description
• Available Amenities
• Pet Policy
• Directions
• Nearby Attractions
• Or get a list of campgrounds near a location

How we built it

We used AWS to host our skill, and node.js to write all the logic behind the skill.

Challenges we ran into

The API returned XML only which we needed to convert into JSON. Most intents relied on multiple API calls that needed to be executed synchronously.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The biggest accomplishment we got out of this is getting our skill certified, being this is the first time either of us attempted creating an Alexa skill.

What we learned

We learned how to work with the Alexa Skills Kit and AWS Lambda

What's next for Happy Camper

We are excited to keep building Happy Camper into a very useful Skill and to add more features. We are going to extend outside of California, and an option to check campground availability. We are going to use DynamoDB so users can have a list of favorite campsites (to easily ask if there are any alerts for any campsites, availability, etc.). And the biggest thing we want to implement is to work with Active API to enable users to reserve campgrounds.

Built With

• active-api
• alexa-skills-kit
• amazon-web-services
• node.js