From Nick Triantafillou on hackster.io:
After finishing my first entry for this competition where I almost missed the deadline.. I realised I had another whole month as the deadline was pushed back. So what better way to continue my learning than to build something for the other category using the Alexa Voice Service!
Trying to wrack my brain for ideas.. I was inspired by the header image and decided to build my own time machine!
OK so I’m not Doc and I didn’t require any flux capacitors, but a soldering iron and 7 panel displays were involved. I decided to make an Alexa enabled alarm clock!
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