I recently won an Amazon Echo in a BBQ cooking competition and I was eager to get it set up in my house. As you may know, the Echo allows you to use voice commands to do things like order from Amazon, ...

Something like “I give up”, perhaps. When Alexa tells the drink dispenser to turn on, the ESP8266 fires a relay which starts up a small 12 V air pump.

Do you remember the simpler times when you had a DOS command line, a handful of commands, and you talked to the hardware through a few BIOS and DOS interrupts? Okay, maybe it was a little limited, but ...