Sam Machin has over 15 years of experience in the communications industry and a strong track record of innovation. He currently works for Nexmo as a developer advocate, which enables him to attend events where he can chat with other developers about their projects. Sam is passionate about hackathons—he got started with Alexa at the BattleHack world finals in 2015.
Sam is a strong believer in rapid prototyping to discover the optimal solution for both the user and the technology. He is very interested in the Alexa Voice Service and particularly enthusiastic about the idea of getting Alexa everywhere. He is primarily a server-side developer usually working in Python but has also built some front-end JavaScript applications and a small amount on swift on iOS. Aside from Alexa development, he is also experimenting with WebRTC and exploring new ways to deploy communications.
- AlexaPi: Turn a Raspberry Pi into an Alexa client.
- AlexaCHIP: Code to turn a CHIP into an Alexa client.
- alexaweb: Alexa in the Browser project, see alexaweb.herokuapp.com for a demo *: Echo Show: Echo Show Security Camera with a Pi
Contributions
- The $10 Echo project, about AlexaCHIP and AlexaPi
- Alexa in the browser project, the inspiration for echosim.io
- Call Alexa project
- “Voice is the new black” talk at SW Mobile
- "Home Automation and Alexa" talk at BathCamp
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