We're super excited to introduce to you our newest Alexa Skill, AstroBot. AstroBot is an aggregator of a few space related APIs, originally inspired by the simple-yet-brilliant howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com. Details, attributions, etc, after the break...
| So, AstroBot is the first informational skill for us here at 3PO-Labs. It allows you to ask a few simple (but very interesting, in our opinion) questions of Alexa:
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Our idea was to start with a small set of features, and implement them in an easy to use manner, just like the aforementioned site. Further documentation on how to use AstroBot can be found on our bots page, and the skill can be enabled by voice ("Alexa, enable AstroBot"), or directly through this link to the alexa companion webapp.
As an informational service, we really would love your feedback on what other sorts of questions you'd like to be able to ask of AstroBot, what additional information we can provide about existing functions, and what sort of Easter eggs or other fun tidbits we should add. We figured we'd start small with a few useful topics, and then let you guys tell us what else to build out. Feedback is greatly appreciated.
Finally, we'd be remiss if we didn't give props to the two services that make AstroBot possible:
As an informational service, we really would love your feedback on what other sorts of questions you'd like to be able to ask of AstroBot, what additional information we can provide about existing functions, and what sort of Easter eggs or other fun tidbits we should add. We figured we'd start small with a few useful topics, and then let you guys tell us what else to build out. Feedback is greatly appreciated.
Finally, we'd be remiss if we didn't give props to the two services that make AstroBot possible:
- First, OpenNotify tells us the location of the ISS, and information about the people in space, you can check it out here: http://open-notify.org/
- All of the information about launches comes from a super neat tool called LaunchLibrary, which is very full-featured (we're only using the tip of the iceberg). You can hit them up on /r/LaunchLibrary, see their API docs, or check out their site for all sorts of launch info.
Hit us up (directly or via our contact form) with questions or ideas, or even if you just generally want to chat about spaceflight, voice interface, or Alexa!
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