InspirationMy wife and I are first time parents of twins. Hailey and Aiden loved to relax and nap in their Fisher Price Rock'n Play Sleeper. They especially liked when we would rock them back and forth, since they were too young to do it themselves. At first, I was just going to try and hook up a motor to rock the kids, but having just purchased an Amazon Echo and having a Raspberry Pi lying around, I thought it would be a cool project to try and make a voice activated baby rocker!
Finished ProductPersonally, this was a big undertaking. I had never made an Alexa skill, programmed a Raspberry Pi (the twins were born around the same time I purchased it, so it was just sitting around), done anything with electric motors, or used NodeJS (although, I do have JavaScript experience). On top of that, we had newborn twins!
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