As the universe of IoT continues to grow at a rapid pace, our abilities to interact with these devices can be useful. As an added bonus, developing these skills can be fun too! I’ll take you through my journey of developing my first Alexa skill in Python for Amazon Echo devices aptly named Happy Days. It is a random quote generator that delivers positive quotes. I’ll go over the skills of how to get Python to talk to Alexa and how to dump that code into Lambda for a seamless delivery between Amazon Web Services and the Alexa Skills Kit in just a little over 200 lines! Never developed an Alexa skill before? Don’t worry, I hadn’t either. I’ll provide plenty of resources to help get you started on a path you’ll never want to leave as an Alexa developer. This talk was presented at: https://2017.djangocon.us/talks/alexa/ LINKS: Follow Heather aka. Heats 👇 On Twitter: https://twitter.com/h34th3r329 Official homepage: http://www.dnsrsearch.com/index.php?origURL=http%3A//heats.life/&r=&bc= Follow DjangCon US 👇 https://twitter.com/djangocon Follow DEFNA 👇 https://twitter.com/defnado https://www.defna.org/