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Self-driving cars use advanced vehicle safety technologies through computers, electronics and sensors to drive themselves. Also called autonomous vehicles, or AVs for short, driverless vehicles are struggling to gain in popularity. According to Partners for Automated Vehicle Education (PAVE), a 2020 poll of Americans demonstrated perception challenges are widely based on a lack of education and understanding of how self-driving cars work. Additionally, respondents show low confidence levels in self-regulation of the auto industry and AV safety and technology.

The same PAVE poll showed a stark contrast in American trust compared to a 2021 survey by AAA. In the PAVE poll, only 48% of Americans would not get into a self-driving car. In the AAA survey, 86% stated they would be afraid to ride in a driverless vehicle. Regardless, the industry has work to do to gain trust and confidence from American drivers before self-driving cars can go mainstream.

Self-driving car facts

Without prioritizing safety over speed and convenience, it is estimated only ⅓ of driver-error car crashes can be overcome with driverless vehicles.

It is estimated that self-driving cars can free up to 50 minutes per day dedicated to driving. (McKinsey & Company)

Just 34% of Americans consider autonomous car advantages outweigh potential disadvantages, with 20% stating there is no safe way for fully autonomous vehicles.(PAVE)

How do self-driving cars work?

Self-driving cars use technology to replace driver assistance with automated safety features to navigate roads. A mixture of sensors, software, radar, GPS, laser beams and cameras monitor road conditions to operate and navigate an autonomous vehicle.

Though there is yet to be a fully driverless vehicle on the road outside of testing vehicles, some partially autonomous features are commonly installed in cars you can purchase today. According to the NHTSA, the first safety features presented in vehicles began in the 1950s with seat belts and expanded to optional and then standard offerings of antilock brakes and cruise control.

In 2000, advanced safety features were introduced, including:

Blind spot detection

Electronic stability control

Forward collision warning

Lane departure warning

Starting in 2010, advanced driver assistance features were offered, with many standard in today's vehicles:

Automatic emergency braking

Lane centering assist

Pedestrian and rear automatic emergency braking

Rear cross traffic alerts

Rearview video monitoring systems

Partially automated safety features began to be introduced in 2016 and are continuing to rollout until 2025, including:

Adaptive cruise control

Lane keep assist

Self-park

Traffic jam assist

The NHTSA anticipates that fully autonomous safety features like highway autopilot will be introduced by 2025.

Are self-driving cars safe?

Over 35,000 people die in the U.S. each year in vehicle-related crashes. As much as 94% of crashes happen because of human error, according to the NHTSA. One of the most significant motivating factors for driverless cars is the expectation of reduced accidents, injuries and deaths to passengers and pedestrians.

Autonomous vehicles are currently an unregulated industry without a standard for safety. As a result, the software may be vulnerable to hacking and remote control and more susceptible to computer viruses. With up to 100 onboard computers, self-driving cars can also experience a computer malfunction, leading to an accident with another vehicle or pedestrian.

Human assumptions and interactions largely used today for safe passing, like entering a busy street from a side road, are currently not perfected on autonomous vehicles. With driverless cars on the roads, drivers should take certain precautions for their own safety. This includes never getting behind the wheel of an autonomous vehicle intoxicated and paying attention to the conditions surrounding the vehicle. Even with continued advances in self-driving car technology, having adequate auto insurance and practicing safe driving habits is crucial.

Will cars ever be fully automated?

There are six levels of automation to distinguish between partially autonomous to full autonomous vehicles:

Level 0: A human does all the driving without assistance.

Level 1: Braking and accelerating or steering assist the human driver using an advanced driver assistance system (ADAS).

Level 2: Braking/accelerating and steering can be controlled autonomously at the same time, though the human must monitor conditions continuously and perform remaining tasks.

Level 3: The automated driving system (ADS) can perform all driving tasks under certain conditions. The human driver must be ready and able to take back control when requested by the ADS and must perform all tasks when not under optimal conditions.

Level 4: The ADS performs driving tasks and monitors the environment in certain conditions without the human driver needing to pay attention.

Level 5: The ADS fully drives the vehicle in all conditions without the need for humans or passengers to pay attention or be involved in driving.

Sensors unable to work in less than optimal conditions, lack of regulations and the ability for machine learning to overtake human assumption, and low consumer trust are a few of the reasons fully autonomous cars are not on the roads today. Driverless vehicles can be expected within the next decade on highways but will probably not happen in cities for several decades.

Advantages of self-driving cars

There are several advantages claimed about driverless vehicles, though they are still being proven out. A few advantages brought forth are safer streets, greater environmental benefits and better access for people with disabilities.

Safe streets

It is anticipated that driverless vehicles will decrease congested traffic and create a smoother traffic flow, making the streets safer for everyone. However, autonomous vehicle technology must first overcome the obstacle of non-standard road markings between cities and states, obstructed camera and sensor views caused by accidents, roadwork and weather conditions. In addition, infrastructure upgrades must incorporate radio transmitters, higher-capacity mobile and wireless networks and protocols, and communication standards must be addressed before self-driving cars can take over our roadways.

Green driving

In controlled environments like farming and mining, autonomy has been shown to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by up to 60 percent. With better traffic flow, fuel consumption is expected to decrease as well. Acceleration and braking can also be optimized with technology, reducing emissions and improving fuel economy. Though this can be seen as a benefit, improved fuel economy has been shown to increase travel, which negates any fuel savings. A small-scale study comparing adaptive cruise control to non-ACC models only showed a 5-7% reduction in fuel consumption, suggesting the environmental claims may not be as high as anticipated.

Greater opportunities for more people

Autonomous cars could open up doors for people with disabilities, providing them safe and reliable transportation. A recent white paper suggests self-driving cars could save up to $19 billion in annual healthcare costs from missed appointments and provide up to 2 million job opportunities. For the disabled, self-driving cars could reduce isolation and improve their quality of life and health.

Self-driving cars: Past and future

Self-driving cars began in the 1920s with radio-controlled vehicles. Electronic guide systems started in the 1960s, and in the early 1980s, Mercedes-Benz introduced the first vision-guided van. Advanced safety features were added in the early 2000s, with advanced driver assistance features being offered in 2010.

Automakers like Ford, General Motors, Stellantis and Tesla are introducing new and upgrading existing driverless vehicle technologies. For example, GM's Super Cruise system has been introduced on select Cadillac models, offering autonomous lane changes on previously laser-mapped highways. Tesla's Autopilot and "full self-driving" software technology is currently in beta testing with limited success.

Recently, Tesla's Model 3 and Y's safety ratings have been pulled by Consumer Reports and the IIHS after the removal of radar for a sophisticated camera system as this change does not meet the standards for safety features. Though GM's Super Cruise system reminds drivers to keep their hands on the wheel and pay attention, Tesla's Autopilot does not. In 2018, a California driver was killed when his Tesla crashed into a barrier while playing a video game. It was on Autopilot and did not alert the driver of potential danger ahead.

The future of self-driving cars

Though strides have been made towards fully autonomous vehicles, technology and adaptation still have a long way to go before driverless cars become the norm. Anticipate seeing more self-driving cars on open highways in the next decade. Still, more congested areas with non-standard road markings and high instances of road work and pedestrian traffic should not expect autonomous cars sooner than several decades from now.

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Amazon's digital voice assistant Alexa is (literally) almost everywhere. What started with the first Amazon Echo smart speaker has exploded into an entire ecosystem of Alexa-enabled smart gadgets. The scaled-down Amazon Echo Dot was the first of such offspring, but it was followed in time by the Echo Dot with Clock, the even more compact , the chonky Echo Studio and smart displays such as the Echo Show 10, , and most recently, the (plus the cute little round-faced ).

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Then there's the oddball devices, those products where you wouldn't expect a voice assistant to be hiding: for your car, headphones, Echo Frames eyeglasses, the ring that puts Alexa on your finger, the Amazon Smart Oven microwave and Wi-Fi devices.

All of these devices put together make Alexa practically inescapable -- which is good, if you're into that sort of thing. If a digital voice assistant is going to be that ubiquitous, you'd hope it comes in more than just a little bit handy, right?

Well, it is. Behold, the (almost) complete list of commands you can give to Amazon's Alexa.

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Summoning Alexa

By default, Amazon's connected speakers all have the same wake word. To queue up a request, just say, "Alexa." You can change the wake word to something else if, say, your own name is Alexa, or you'd just prefer an alternative. You can also trigger your smart assistant with Amazon, Echo or Computer. To change it, in the Alexa app go to Settings then Device Settings then select the Echo device you'd like to change the wake word on (you have to change each device's settings individually).

If you have an Amazon Tap, Dash Wand or the Amazon Fire TV voice remote, you'll need to press a button to wake Alexa. Amazon updated the Tap with a hands-free mode that you must enable in the settings. The only wake word available to the Amazon Tap is Alexa.

There's also a feature called Follow-Up Mode that makes it easier and faster to issue multiple commands to Alexa without having to keep repeating the wake word, if you enable it. When you do, Alexa will continue to listen for another command after it's completed your first request. You can keep issuing more commands until you're done or you say "stop."

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Amazon has also built on this a multiple commands feature by allowing you to string two related commands into one. You can say something like, "Alexa, play folk music at volume six," or "Alexa, add bread, milk and eggs to my shopping list."

Other places you can access Alexa

While the most obvious or natural way to use Alexa may be through an Echo speaker from Amazon, it's not the only way you can call up Amazon's digital assistant.

In fact, there are more and more ways to access Alexa being created all the time, and you don't even need any specialized devices. Here are some of the most prominent ways to use Alexa with the devices you already have:

You can enable the mobile apps to listen for Alexa when they're open (this will, however, disable your phone from listening for its native digital assistant's wake word -- i.e. "Hey, Siri" or "Hey, Google" won't work while you have the Alexa app open). Otherwise, you can tap the Alexa icon to call up the assistant.

On an updated Windows computer, you can summon Cortana and say, "Open Alexa." After the initial connection is made, saying this will queue up Amazon's assistant through Cortana.

Alexa Echo Auto allows you to connect your phone to Alexa in your car. Echo Auto is capable of carrying out many of the same commands and features as your home device, but with some restrictions (it won't unlock your doors, for example).

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The complete list of Alexa commands

The list of Alexa commands is expansive and grows with every new service or device it supports. Alexa isn't perfect, but it's pretty great at understanding natural language, so you don't always have to speak the commands exactly as you see them below. Many commands work when worded several different ways or even with words omitted.

When you consider the possible third-party commands through Skills -- essentially the apps of Amazon's Alexa -- the list goes on even further. To learn what individual skills are capable of, visit the skill's page from the Amazon Alexa app or alexa.amazon.com.

Here are all the native Alexa commands.

Basic commands

Ask for help: "Alexa, help."

Mute or unmute: "Alexa, mute" or, "Alexa, unmute."

Stop or pause: "Alexa, stop" or, "Alexa, shut up."

Change volume: "Alexa, set the volume to 5," "Alexa, louder" or "Alexa, turn up/down the volume."

Coronavirus commands

Ask for coronavirus information: "Alexa, what is the coronavirus?"

Ask for coronavirus news updates: "Alexa, what's the latest with the coronavirus?"

Ask for help timing your handwashing for 20 seconds: "Alexa, help me wash my hands."

Echo Show

The Echo Show and Echo Spot are the only Echo speakers with touchscreen displays. This means you can tell them to show you things.

Ask for what the Echo Show can display: "Alexa, what can you show me?"

Show your calendar: "Alexa, show my calendar."

Show pictures: "Alexa, show my photos" or, "Alexa, show me pictures of cats."

View your cameras or other rooms: "Alexa, show the living room camera."

View movie trailers: "Alexa, show me the trailer for It."

Movie showtimes: "Alexa, show me movie showtimes."

View the forecast: "Alexa, show me the weekend forecast."

Play YouTube videos: "Alexa, show me travel videos on YouTube."

Display recipes: "Alexa, show me a slow cooker recipe from Allrecipes."

View your Flash Briefing: "Alexa, play my video Flash Briefing."

See your timers: "Alexa, show me my timers."

Open a visual skill: "Alexa, open Uber."

Fire TV and Fire TV Stick

You can now use compatible Echo devices (Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Look, Echo Show and Amazon Tap) to control your Fire TV and Fire TV Sticks.

Control Fire TV: "Alexa, [pause, play, resume, stop, fast-forward, rewind] on Fire TV."

Search movies or TV: "Alexa, search for [movie to TV show title] on Fire TV" or "Alexa, find [movie or TV show title] on Fire TV."

Find work by a certain actor: "Alexa, show me titles with [actor] on Fire TV."

Open apps: "Alexa, open [app name] on Fire TV" or "Alexa, launch [app name] on Fire TV."

Return home: "Alexa, return home."

Fire TV Edition televisions

Amazon also builds its Fire TV operating system into televisions like the Element EL4KAMZ17 series. All of the commands above work on those too, in addition to a few TV-specific commands below.

Turn on or off the TV: "Alexa, turn on Fire TV" or "Alexa, turn off Fire TV."

Change the volume of Fire TV: "Alexa, set the volume to [level] on Fire TV" or "Alexa, turn [up/down] the volume on Fire TV."

Mute Fire TV: "Alexa, [mute/unmute] Fire TV."

Change the channel when watching an antenna: "Alexa, go to [channel or network name] on Fire TV."

Change inputs: "Alexa, switch to PlayStation on Fire TV" or "Alexa, switch to HDMI 1 on Fire TV."

Open antenna program guide: "Alexa, open TV guide on Fire TV."

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Media controls

Adjust audio settings: "Alexa, set the bass to four."

Play music: "Alexa, play some music."

Play music on other (or multiple) Alexa devices: "Alexa, play [artist/album/song/genre] in the living room" or "Alexa, play [music] everywhere."

Queue specific song or artist: "Alexa, play music by [artist]."

Play a song based on context: "Alexa, play the latest Avett Brothers album" or "Alexa, play that song that goes 'Gotta gotta be down, because I want it all.'"

Play music based on a theme: "Alexa, play baby-making music" or "Alexa, play rock music for working."

Play the song of the day: "Alexa, play the song of the day."

Play Spotify music: "Alexa, play [playlist] on Spotify."

Play Pandora station: "Alexa, play [artist] station on Pandora."

Play a radio station: "Alexa, play [radio station call letters, example: WEBN]."

Play an audiobook: "Alexa, play [title] on Audible," "Alexa, read [title]" or "Alexa, play the book, [title]."

Resume the last played audiobook: "Alexa, resume my book."

Skip audiobook chapters: "Alexa, next chapter" or "Alexa, previous chapter."

Play a bedtime story: "Alexa, open Storytime"

Listen to Alexa read you a Kindle book: "Alexa, read my Kindle book."

Set a sleep timer: "Alexa set a sleep timer for 45 minutes" or "Alexa, stop playing in 45 minutes."

Song information: "Alexa, what's playing?"

Music controls: "Alexa, play" or "Alexa, next."

Control music playback on another Alexa speaker: "Alexa, stop in the kitchen" or "Alexa, next in the office."

Restart song: "Alexa, restart."

Add a song to your Prime Music library: "Alexa, add this song."

Create a playlist in Amazon Music: "Alexa, create a new playlist," or "Alexa, create a 'Friday Chill' playlist."

Add a song to a playlist in Amazon Music: "Alexa, add this song to my playlist," or "Alexa, add this to my [playlist name] playlist."

Like or dislike a song on Pandora and iHeartRadio: "Alexa, I like this song" or "Alexa, thumbs down."

Start Amazon Music Unlimited trial: "Alexa, start my free trial of Amazon Music Unlimited."

"Alexa, wake me up every day at 8 am to music" allows users to set their mornings off right with music from Pandora, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeartRadio and Vevo.

Time and date

Set an alarm: "Alexa, set an alarm for 7 a.m." or "Alexa, wake me up at 7 in the morning."

Set a music alarm: "Alexa, wake me up to [artist, song, genre, playlist or album] at 8 a.m.," "Alexa, set an alarm to Band of Horses" or "Alexa, wake me up to Kiss FM on TuneIn."

Set a repeating alarm: "Alexa, set a repeating alarm for weekdays at 7 a.m."

Set a timer: "Alexa, timer" or "Alexa, set a timer for 15 minutes."

Set a music timer: "Alexa, set a 15-minute timer to My Heart will Go On"

Create a named timer: "Alexa, set a pizza timer for 20 minutes."

Set multiple timers: "Alexa, set a second timer for 5 minutes."

Check timer status: "Alexa, how much time is left on the pizza timer?" or "Alexa, what are my timers?"

Cancel a timer: "Alexa, cancel the pizza timer" or "Alexa, cancel the 15-minute timer."

Ask the time: "Alexa, what time is it?"

Ask the date: "Alexa, what's the date?"

Ask when the next alarm is: "Alexa, when's my next alarm?"

Cancel an alarm: "Alexa, cancel my alarm for 2 p.m."

Snooze alarm: "Alexa, snooze."

Check dates: "Alexa, when is [holiday] this year?"

Calls and messaging

You can make calls and leave voicemails to other Echo users, as well as "Drop In" to your own echo devices, either to voice or video chat with whoever's in the room (or just to monitor the space like a security camera). If you have an Android, you can send text messages with Alexa.

Call another Echo user: "Alexa, call [name]."

Answer an incoming call: "Alexa, answer the call" or "Alexa, answer."

Hang up: "Alexa, hang up" or "Alexa, end the call."

Message another Echo user: "Alexa, message [name]" or "Alexa, send [name] a message."

Play messages: "Alexa, play messages."

Send an SMS: "Alexa, send an SMS to [contact name]," or "Alexa, send an SMS."

Use Drop In on one of your own devices: "Alexa, drop in on the living room."

Drop In on another user (requires the other user to allow you to Drop In anytime): "Alexa, drop in on [name]."

Turn off the video during an ongoing call (only works with Echo Show): "Alexa, turn video off."

Make an announcement: "Alexa, announce it's dinner time," "Alexa, broadcast it's time to go" or "Alexa, tell everyone good night."

Number check: "Alexa, open phone number check" → "tell me about 301-555-5555" or "please provide information about 301-555-5555."

Purchasing

Reorder essentials from Amazon: "Alexa, buy more deodorant" or "Alexa, reorder deodorant."

Track packages from Amazon: "Alexa, where's my stuff?" or "Alexa, track my order."

Order an Amazon Alexa device: "Alexa, order an Echo," "Alexa, order an Echo Dot" or "Alexa, order an Amazon Tap."

Add an item to your cart: "Alexa, add garbage bags to my cart."

Order an Uber or Lyft with their skills: "Alexa, ask Uber to request a ride" or, "Alexa, ask Lyft for a ride."

While listening to music in Amazon Music: "Alexa, buy this song" or "Alexa, buy this album."

Find new music to purchase: "Alexa, shop for new music by [artist]."

Purchase a song or album from an artist: "Alexa, buy [song or album] by [artist]."

Ask about deals: "Alexa, what are your deals?"

For good recommendations on products, Alexa has you covered. Just say "Alexa, find me a good smartphone on Amazon," and it will find products based on Amazon customer ratings and reviews.

Notifications

To turn on notifications, open the Alexa app and select to Settings,then Notifications, then Shopping Notifications and toggle it on. Your Echo speakers will light up yellow when you have new notifications.

Check missed notifications: "Alexa, what did I miss?" "Alexa, read my notifications" or "Alexa, what are my notifications?"

Navigate through notifications: "Alexa, next" or, "Alexa, previous."

Delete notifications: "Alexa, delete all of my notifications."

To-do and shopping lists

Add task to to-do list: "Alexa, add 'go to the grocery store' to my to-do list" or "Alexa, I need to make an appointment with the doctor."

Create a new to-do item: "Alexa, create a to-do."

Check calendar events: "Alexa, what's on my calendar for tomorrow?"

Add an event to a calendar: "Alexa, add [event] to my calendar for [day] at [time]" or "Alexa, add an event to my calendar."

Move a calendar event: "Alexa, move my meeting from 12 to 3."

Create a shopping list: "Alexa, add eggs to my shopping list" or "Alexa, I need to buy laundry detergent."

Check your shopping list: "Alexa, what's on my shopping list?"

Create a reminder: "Alexa, reminder" or "Alexa, remind me to check the oven in 5 minutes."

Check on existing reminders: "Alexa, what are my reminders this weekend?" or "Alexa, what reminders do I have tomorrow?"

Donate money to your favorite charity by saying "Alexa, make a donation to American Cancer Institute Inc." or any number of approved charities.

Want to check your American Express balance? Just say "Alexa, open Amex," and look at your account.

News and weather

Ask for your Flash Briefing: "Alexa, what's my Flash Briefing?"

Add music news to your Flash Briefing: "Alexa, enable Today in Music."

Check headlines: "Alexa, what's in the news?"

Check weather: "Alexa, what's the weather like?" or "Alexa, will it rain today?" You can also ask "Alexa, will I need an umbrella today?"

Get a weather forecast: "Alexa, what's the weather going to be like this weekend?

Get traffic information: "Alexa, what's my commute look like?" or "Alexa, what's traffic like?"

Entertainment

Find movies in nearby theaters: "Alexa, what movies are playing?" or "Alexa, what action movies are playing tonight?"

Get information on movies playing: "Alexa, tell me about the movie [title]."

Get movie quotes: "Give me a [movie] quote."

Get IMDb rating: "Alexa, what is the IMDb rating for [movie or TV show]?"

Get casting for a movie or show: "Alexa, who plays in [movie or TV show]?"

Find out who an actor is: "Alexa, who plays [character] in [movie or TV show]?"

Find an actor's latest work: "Alexa, what is [actor]'s latest movie?"

Find out who sings a particular song: "Who sings the song [title]?"

Get the names of band members: "Who is in the band [name]?"

Get album information: "What year did [band] release [song or album]?"

Find popular music from an artist: "Alexa, what's popular from [artist]?"

Sample music from an artist: "Alexa, sample songs by [artist]."

Find a particular album or song: "Alexa, find [song or album] by [artist]."

Food and businesses

Get a recipe: "Alexa, how do you make chocolate chip cookies?"

Discover nearby restaurants: "Alexa, find me a nearby pizza restaurant" or "Alexa, what's the nearest coffee shop?"

Get operating hours or a phone number for local businesses: "Alexa, find the address for Bank of America" or "Alexa, find business hours for Harris Teeter."

Saying "Alexa, open Wine Finder" lets Alexa help you match the best vino with your meal. If you tell Alexa you're eating shrimp, it will tell you the best wine.

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Math

Convert units: "Alexa, how many [units] are in [units]?"

Convert units: "Alexa, how many [units] are in 2 [units]?"

Basic math: "Alexa, what's 5 plus 7?" or "Alexa, what's 56 times 33?"

Advanced math: "Alexa, 70 factorial." (Warning: Alexa will list numbers you didn't know existed for about a minute.)

Settle a score

Roll a die: "Alexa, roll a die" or, "Alexa, roll a 26-sided die."

Flip a coin: "Alexa, flip a coin."

Pick a number: "Alexa, pick a number between 1 and 50."

Definitions and spelling

Get the definition of a word: "Alexa, what's the definition of [word]?"

Get the spelling of a word: "Alexa, how do you spell [word]?"

Sports

Check the results of a finished game: "Alexa, what was the score of the [team] game?"

Ask if a team won: "Alexa, did the [team] win?"

Ask when the next game is scheduled: "Alexa, when do the [team] play next?"

Find out the results of your favorite teams: "Alexa, give me my Sports Update."

Get Fantasy Football update with the Yahoo Fantasy Football skill: "Alexa, ask Yahoo Fantasy Football for a score update" or "Alexa, ask Yahoo Fantasy Football if Colin Kaepernick is playing this week."

Get league standings: "Alexa, what are the MLB standings?"

Voicecast

Send current listening to a Fire tablet: "Alexa, send that to my Fire tablet."

Send to a different profile's Fire tablet: "Alexa, show this on [name]'s Fire tablet."

Smart home

Alexa can integrate with loads of smart home platforms, such as SmartThings, Philips Hue, Wink, Insteon, Lutron, Belkin WeMo and many more. Some require you to enable skills, and some don't.

Here is a selection of the commands you can use for controlling your smart home, although there are dozens more.

Turn lights on or off: "Alexa, turn on the lights" or "Alexa, turn off the living room lights."

Dim the lights: "Alexa, dim the lights to 50 percent."

Change the color of the lights: "Alexa, make the living room lights red" or " Alexa, turn the lights to soft white."

Change the color temperature of the lights: "Alexa, make the kitchen lights a little warmer."

Adjust temperature: "Alexa, raise the temperature 1 degree."

Set temperature: "Alexa, set the temperature to 72."

Lock your doors: "Alexa, lock my back door."

Close your garage door: "Alexa, ask Garageio to close my garage."

Discover smart home devices: "Alexa, discover my devices."

Use IFTTT recipes: "Alexa, trigger [IFTTT recipe]."

Activate a scene (limited to Control4, Insteon, Lutron Caséta Wireless, Philips Hue, SmartThings and Wink): "Alexa, turn on Movie Time" or "Alexa, turn on Bedtime."

Control GE appliances with the Geneva skill: "Alexa, tell Geneva to preheat my oven to 400 degrees" or "Alexa, ask Geneva if my laundry is dry."

Locate a lost phone with the TrackR Lost My Phone skill: "Alexa, ask TrackR to find my phone."

Control the TV via Harmony hub: "Alexa, turn on the TV" or "Alexa, turn on Netflix."

The Polk Command Bar has Alexa embedded in its soundbar that provides great sound quality.

Saying "Alexa, run Away Mode" produces conversations to scare off any potential burglars.

Alexa Guard can help keep your home safe by alerting you when it picks up the sounds of smoke alarms or breaking glass. It works with the Amazon smart door bell, a Ring and an ADT security system. To set this feature, simply say "Alexa, I'm leaving."

Read more: The best smart home devices

Bluetooth

Pair a Bluetooth device: "Alexa, pair" or "Alexa, Bluetooth."

Connect to a Bluetooth device: "Alexa, connect to my phone."

Disconnect from a Bluetooth device: "Alexa, disconnect from my phone."

Profiles and user accounts

Switch profiles: "Alexa, switch accounts."

Check which profile is active: "Alexa, which profile is this?"

Skills

Skills are third-party applications for Alexa speakers. They allow you to connect third-party software and hardware to your speaker, as well as play games and add different news sources to your Flash Briefing. Originally, they had to be enabled before you could use them, but Amazon has since made that process automatic (just ask for the Skill and it will enable when it's used).

Use a skill: "Alexa, open Earplay."

Find kid's skills: "Alexa, what kid's skills do you have?

Enable skills: "Alexa, enable Jeopardy!"

Disable skills: "Alexa, disable Domino's."

Bartender skill gives you access to more than 12,000 cocktail recipes: "Alexa, open the bartender."

Cortana

Microsoft's Cortana is available as a skill -- but rather than just being a skill, it opens the door to a completely separate digital assistant through your Alexa speakers.

Once you've added the skill, enabled permissions and connected your Microsoft and Amazon accounts, just say, "Alexa, open Cortana." When you're speaking to Cortana you can check your emails, ask for the next event on your calendar or add items to your to-do list.

For now, the Cortana skill is limited because it's a public preview of what the full integration will be in the future.

Search

Get Wikipedia information: "Alexa, Wikipedia: [subject]."

Tell Alexa to continue reading a Wikipedia entry: "Alexa, tell me more."

Ask a general question: "Alexa, how tall is [person or object's name]?"

Ask Quora a question: "Alexa, ask Quora if Crustaceans feel pain when you boil them."

Get a Game of Thrones quote: "Alexa, give me a Game of Thrones quote."

Whether it's a bull or a bear market, users can check their stock values by saying "Alexa, ask Opening Bell for Microsoft" (or any other publicly traded company).

Holidays

Find out when a holiday is: "Alexa, when is [holiday]?"

Holiday limerick: "Alexa, tell me a holiday limerick."

Learn about a holiday: "Alexa, why do we celebrate [holiday]?"

Ask about Santa: "Alexa, how old is Santa Claus?" "Alexa, is Santa Claus real?" or "Alexa, where does Santa Claus live?"

Ask about Santa's reindeer: "Alexa, who's your favorite reindeer?" "Alexa, what can you tell me about Santa's reindeer?" or "Alexa, what do you know about Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer?"

Track Santa: "Alexa, where is Santa?" or "Alexa, track Santa."

Sing a Christmas carol: "Alexa, sing a Christmas carol."

Have Alexa read "The Night Before Christmas": "Alexa, read "The Night Before Christmas."

Spin the dreidel: "Alexa, spin the dreidel."

Ask for holiday jokes: "Alexa, open my gift," "Alexa, how ugly is your/my holiday sweater?" or "Alexa, tell me a snowman joke."

Ask for holiday movies?: "Alexa, what's your favorite holiday movie?" or "Alexa, what are the top holiday movies?"

Easter eggs

Alexa comes chock-full of Easter eggs -- the list is long. We cover the strange world of Alexa Easter eggs , noting some of the more popular or prominent commands that prompt a snarky or humorous response.

"Alexa, give me an Easter egg."

"Alexa, good morning."

"Alexa, tell me a joke."

"Alexa, beam me up."

"Alexa, set phasers to kill."

"Alexa. Tea. Earl Grey. Hot."

"Alexa, my name is Inigo Montoya."

"Alexa, I want the truth."

"Alexa, party on, Wayne."

"Alexa, show me the money."

"Alexa, what's the first (or second) rule of Fight Club?"

"Alexa, surely you can't be serious."

"Alexa, are you SkyNet?"

"Alexa, party time!"

"Alexa, open the pod bay doors."

"Alexa, when am I going to die?"

"Alexa, what is your quest?"

"Alexa, nice to see you, to see you..."

"Alexa, don't mention the war."

"Alexa, this is a dead parrot."

"Alexa, what is your cunning plan?"

For even more, check out this Reddit thread dedicated to Alexa Easter eggs.

This story is periodically updated.

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Many people have eagerly awaited the day they can control technology using just their brains. Companies like Emotiv Systems, Neurosky, and Interaxon, some of which showcased this year at CES, manufacture headsets that claim to do just that. Breathless articles have gushed about video games and even cars controlled only by a person's mind. But this isn't quite mind control - at least, no one's controlling tech with just their thoughts.

These headsets sense the electrical activity inside a person's brain using a technique known as electroencephalography, or EEG. The technique works like this: Electrodes are placed on the surface of someone's head; these electrodes can measure the electrical signals produced by the brain's neurons through the scalp. EEG has been used as a diagnostic tool for more than half a century. Neurologists can identify patterns in a patient's brain wave activity, allowing them to spot abnormalities that could give rise to seizures or other neurological disorders.

Commercial EEG headsets are more like gimmicks

It's only recently that people have started harnessing EEG as a way to control technology and devices. EEG has been used to help amputees control high-tech prosthetic limbs. Patients with spinal cord injuries or ALS could potentially use the technology to mobilize their wheelchairs or better communicate. Commercially, EEG headsets claim to give wearers something akin to super powers; headlines exuberantly proclaim things like " The Video Game Helmet That Can Hack Your Brain" or " Brainwave-reading headset lets you control your TV with your mind." As more wearable technologies emerge that claim to quantify our biology, it's only expected that devices would be created to tap into our brains. But these commercial EEG headsets are more like gimmicks.

Take Emotiv Systems, which makes an EEG headset called Epoc. Though Epoc has been used to control video game avatars, motorized skateboards, and cars, the headset isn't marketed for any specific task. Emotiv says the device is more for enabling research in the fields of neuropathy, entertainment, and marketing. The controls work like this, according to Emotiv: users can "train" Epoc by thinking of certain objects or motions over and over; this allows the EEG to pick up the patterns associated with each thought. "You can think 'fly' or think about something that you can recall with clarity," says Kim Du, a spokesperson for Emotiv. "You can think about pushing, think about the color blue. The software program is looking for that specific pattern."

Brain patterns can be used to control video game avatars

Those patterns can then be used to control video game avatars, for example. That process works by assigning tasks to a person's various brain wave patterns, which change depending on the individual's mental state. "There are predefined normal patterns for when you're awake, drowsy, when you're asleep, or engaging in activity," says Dr. Madeline Fields, an assistant professor of neurology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. So for instance, an EEG system could prompt a video game character to move forward on a screen if electrodes pick up brain wave patterns associated with drowsiness. The character could then stop moving if a pattern for sleep is detected.

It's important to remember that EEG can't actually read a person's thoughts. Instead, it connects neuronal patterns with actions or mental states. "If I move my right hand, and that creates a very clear signal that links to a computer command, that's an entirely different beast than me simply wanting my character in the game to turn left and turn right. We don't read what people are thinking," says Katharine Noe, a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic. The technology may be able to identify patterns that arise from thinking certain words or phrases over and over again, but EEG can't decipher the specific words people are thinking - much less their desires.

EEG can't actually read a person's thoughts

There are some other flaws with the system, too. For starters: the users have hair. In clinical settings, EEG electrodes must be placed very delicately on the scalp in order to work properly. All the oils from the skin must be wiped away first so that the electrodes can be glued to the skin. Without this kind of care, bad measurements can result. And that's not all: EEG can be confused by outside signals. A lot of objects we use every day have electrical activity, and that can show up on an EEG. "So if you're holding a cell phone up to your ear, it could cause interference with recording of real cerebral activity," says Noe.

These issues plague the consumer experience of EEG headsets - even those that don't make lofty claims like the ability to control cars. This year at CES, InteraXon was showcasing its EEG meditation headset; it didn't fit people's heads, especially those of people with thick hair. The headset is meant to tell a wearer when he or she is properly meditating - but when I tried it out, the system continuously encountered errors. Before my meditation, it asked me to focus on examples of cities or languages - perhaps as a way to pick up the patterns of when my mind is at work. Then I was asked to clear my mind. But once I was finished meditating, the results seemed to make no sense. I was on a noisy showroom floor filled with journalists loudly performing on-camera presentations next to me, but according to the headset, my mind seemed to pivot between true meditative state and diversion frequently. I couldn't take its results seriously, given how much was going wrong.

Commercial EEG headsets may have even bigger problems: it's possible they aren't picking up mental activity at all. Instead, they could be sensing the electric current produced by muscles in the body; heartbeats and eye movements generate voltage that EEGs can read. That makes it hard to tell if a headset is actually measuring brain waves or just a furrowed brow. Emotiv claims its headset can read both muscle movements and brain waves, but it's difficult to tell which metric is being measured without knowing how the commercial headsets' algorithms work. And while InteraXon's headset is supposedly being used in clinical trials to see if it helps cancer patients meditate, there aren't any studies validating the headset.

EEG holds promise for controlling devices

That's why Noe wouldn't trust an EEG-controlled car. "I wouldn't get in the car, and I have to question what signal are they looking at and what is the car actually doing," says Noe. Lara Marcuse, an assistant professor of neurology at the Ican School of Medicine at Mount Sinai agrees. "It'd be hard to control a car," says Marcuse. "You can maybe make a ball move backward and forward, but it'd be hard to give it more direction. It's at a very early stage."
But Marcuse thinks EEG holds promise for controlling devices. That's because the electrodes are very good at picking up signals that indicate the body is moving. "Lifting an arm is particularly sensitive on the EEG," says Marcuse. When both arms are at rest, the brain's neurons produce a specific pattern. But as soon as a person moves an arm or even thinks about moving an arm, the pattern changes distinctly. This could be useful in the field of bionics. Since EEG is so sensitive to arm movements, patients could control a high-tech prosthetic limb, just by concentrating on how they want the limb to move.

Additionally, EEG can record another strong brain pattern known as the P-300 wave. This pattern forms when a person reacts to seeing something he or she is meant to recognize. It's whenever you have an "aha" moment, Marcuse says. "You could use this to dial a phone number," she noted. "If you're on your iPhone and scrolling through pictures of your contacts, you see the person you need to call and then the EEG can call that person."

A likelier future than EEG-controlled cars are headbands that may aid people with disabilities

A likelier future than EEG-controlled cars are headbands that may aid people with disabilities. But for now, those technologies are still too young. So if you see someone promising you can control a car using only your mind, hold onto your wallet - even the most appropriate EEG devices are still in the research stage. Real EEG technology is "more in development, and people are getting close, but it's not like going to a convention and buying a product that's ready to use," says Noe.

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I've spent the last year deep inside Virtual Reality, putting on every headset and trying every experience, good or bad. The experience that most caught my attention and left me wanting more was the HTC Vive. It started last March at VRLA where Valve (HTC's partner in creating the Vive) debuted the first developer edition. Over the course of the year, the HTC Vive and the experiences that it brought continued to become better, deeper and more numerous.

One expectation was always that the HTC Vive was going to be the 'premium' VR product alongside Cardboard, Samsung Electronics GearVR and even 's Oculus Rift. This had to do with the fact that it came with motion controllers and 'roomscale' VR. Another expectation was that the HTC Vive would command a premium price, which at this point it does at $799.

But the HTC Vive isn't 'premium' just because it has some of the best tracking and designed controllers ever made. The HTC Vive is 'premium' because it delivers the more encompassing VR experience from the platform, SteamVR, to the hardware which includes a VR HMD (head-mounted display), motion controllers, base stations and a plethora of software. Valve's Steam platform for PC games has 120 million active monthly users for a reason: PC gamers love Steam and they trust it. The same can be said about developers who consider Steam the best place to develop and launch a game if they want grassroots support, feedback and more importantly success.

The HTC Vive also has some tricks up its sleeve. The Vive will be an evolving piece of hardware that improves as they roll out new features via software updates. One feature (not ready in time for this article but should be available at launch) is Bluetooth connectivity between your Vive and your Android or iOS phone. This feature allows your Vive to get notifications from your phone, including calls and messages without you having to take off the headset. I expect to see more features like this to continue to roll out over the life of the HTC Vive.

My experience with testing the HTC Vive was extremely positive, I had tons of fun using the 50+ experiences. Yes, there are great games like AudioShield, #SelfieTennis, Space Pirate Trainer, Cloudlands VR Minigolf and Raw Data. However, there are also applications like Tilt Brush and Sculpt VR for drawing and modeling as well as sandbox applications like Modbox.

But the depth of the HTC Vive goes beyond that with applications like Valve's app ' The Lab': a combination of games, travel experiences and science experiments. The purpose of 'The Lab' is to help developers and VR enthusiasts understand what's possible with the HTC Vive through unique experiences using the Vive's controls and HMD. The Lab is like Valve's own Nintendo Land for VR; it's meant to show what the platform is capable of through mini games and experiences, what Valve calls 'pocket universes'.

Many of these pocket modules are already being supplanted by developers' own applications. Realities.IO application is a photogrammetry application built in Unreal Engine 4. It starts out with a very realistic globe as its UI and takes you around the world to experience different places in photogrammetry. This application has more functionality than Valve's own and could be crowdsourced to increase the amount of places people can go. In addition to Realities. IO, Universe Sandbox has blown everyone's mind I've shown it to. It's a complex, flexible and fun application that lets you simulate almost any type of solar system, planet or galaxy. Realities.IO taxed my Advanced Micro Devices Radeon Fury X the most, but it also had the most complexity and delivered the most 'godlike' feeling in VR. The educational implications of these apps are huge when you realize they can help inspire students to be astronauts or rocket scientists.

There are also productivity applications like Virtual Desktop and Envelop VR. Virtual Desktop is already available while Envelop VR is in beta. Virtual Desktop helps fill usability holes that the HTC Vive has in simple VR content viewing. This makes sense because Valve doesn't try to fill holes by paying for content or creating first-party experiences. Instead, they want to enable developers to make the best applications and to create natural competition and growth within the Steam ecosystem. Their VR Developer Showcase earlier this year made it extremely clear that the event was about the developers and not the Vive or themselves.

Yes, an HTC Vive and PC are around $1,800 brand new. However, many early adopters already have their own gaming PCs and will only need to upgrade. Hardware requirements will slow the uptake of VR relative to expectations as I wrote last year. At this early stage, VR attracts passionate users and those most willing to spend money. General consumers seem less willing to spend $500+ on headsets...until they've had an experience like the HTC Vive. Once someone tries VR as good as the HTC Vive, all bets are off. The potential for VR becomes real and unlimited. The HTC Vive delivers a new and unique experience with serious depth, even to people who have tried VR before. The HTC Vive and SteamVR convert the skeptics and the curious into believers and even some into evangelists.

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Step 1: The Assessment

To use Lexplore, you'll simply plug in an eye tracker and external monitor to your computer, and download the Lexplore app. The assessment includes a RAN (Rapid Automized Naming) test, and two short passages. There are 8 passages available for each grade level, so your students will never read the same passage twice. After a student reads each passage (aloud or silently), you will verbally ask the student 2 or 3 comprehension questions. These questions are open-ended and act as a "retell" of the short passage. You simply click on a button to indicate if the student answered correctly.

The entire process is completed in about 3 minutes. You can test each student up to 4 times each year. You can get detailed instructions from one of our favorite Lexplorers, Lydiana, through our video series in the "Knowledge Base."

Step 2: The Analysis

The data collected from the assessment is uploaded to a cloud-based platform for analysis. Lexplore researchers developed the analysis method based on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).

Lexplore tracks how the eyes move while reading. The immediate data collected reflects the cognitive processes in the brain. Lexplore's analysis is adjusted depending on the student's grade level and the time of the school year when you assessed the student. The information gathered is analyzed based on thousands of recorded eye movements and a battery of other established tests and assessments such as rapid automatized naming, word strings, and reading of nonsense words and real words.

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It is also important to note that there is no single parameter or trait in eye movements that determines how Lexplore's models assess a student's reading ability. Rather, it is a combination of several different parameters, which together reflect the cognitive processes taking place as the student reads that determines his/her results.

Step 3: The Results

You can access the students' results via the Lexplore web portal. In addition, you can compare each student against other students in the class, school or across the district.

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Lexplore uses five levels to describe reading ability: (1) Low , (2) Below average, (3) Average (4) Above average, and (5) High. The reading level indicates a student's current reading ability, and immediately provides you with valuable information regarding which students need extra support or remediation.

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Whiteboard.fi - Free online whiteboard for teachers and classrooms

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Whiteboard.fi is an instant formative assessment tool for your classroom, providing you with live feedback and immediate overview over your students.

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Create your own Jeopardy questions and game using this online template.

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Create your own jeopardy template online, without PowerPoint. Or browse the pre-made templates created by other people!

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You don't need to write any code to create a simple story with Twine, but you can extend your stories with variables, conditional logic, images, CSS, and JavaScript when you're ready.

Twine publishes directly to HTML, so you can post your work nearly anywhere. Anything you create with it is completely free to use any way you like, including for commercial purposes.

The latest version of Twine is 2.8.1, released 3 January 2024.

Looking for the 1.x version of Twine? It's on the IF Archive.

The Twine Reference is a guide to the Twine user interface. If you're new to Twine, start here.

Once you're familiar with Twine, you should learn more about the story format you're using. Story formats are like game engines, and determine the features you'll have access to and the way you'll write code.

The Twine Cookbook has advice on how to choose a story format and easy-to-follow examples of how to accomplish common tasks with each of Twine's built-in formats.

Each of Twine's built-in story formats has an online guide:

Chris Klimas, who created Twine and leads its development, has a Patreon.

You can also make donations in support of Twine to The Interactive Technology Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides support for the infrastructure of the interactive fiction community.

Some story format developers also accept donations. Visit the web site of the story format you use to find out how you can support continued development.

Non-financial support is important, too. You can help someone out with a question, contribute to the Cookbook, create tutorials of your own, help fix bugs in Twine or its story formats, or translate Twine's user interface to another language.

There are repos for Twine's story formats, too:

Twine is a registered trademark of the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation. Hosting for this web site is also provided by the IFTF.

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Twine / An open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories

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I used this in my previous school specifically in social studies.

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Online newsletter format that allows students to update information while teachers can keep track of changes. Can be used for journals, school bulletins, exit tickets.
If you have any questions about Smore, contact Tanya Chase.
smore.com

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Panorama of locations all around the world with locations of importance marked.

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AirPano.com * VR Production Studio * Virtual Travels * 360° Aerial Panoramas and 360° Video around the World

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AirPano is a VR project created by a team of Russian photographers focused on taking high-resolution aerial 360° photographs and 360° video. Today AirPano is the largest virtual travel resource in the world -- by geographical coverage, number of aerial photographs, and artistic and technical quality of the images - featuring 360° panoramas and 360° videos of the highest quality shot from a bird's eye view.

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90 second video responses on any topic you choose, great for quick and easy feedback or reflections.  Ask Michelle Ward for awesome ways to use in your class.

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Add questions into your videos and record student answers to check understanding. Can be linked to Google Classroom
Julie

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Use coggle to organize thoughts and ideas into an interactive collaborartive mind map.

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Coggle is online software for creating and sharing mindmaps and flowcharts. It works online in your browser: there's nothing to download or install. Log in to start diagramming!

Whether you're taking notes, brainstorming, planning, or doing something awesomely creative, it is super simple to visualise your ideas with Coggle. Share with as many friends or colleagues as you like. Changes you make will show up instantly in their browser, wherever they are in the world

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The clear way to share complex information. Coggle is a collaborative mind-mapping tool that helps you make sense of complex things. Create unlimited mind maps and easily share them with friends and colleagues.

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FutureMe: Write a Letter to your Future Self

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Write a letter to the future and read the public (but anonymous) letters from others. FutureMe has been delivering letters to the future for millions of people since 2002.

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check out some of the projects that have been done in a variety of subjects.

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SAM Labs provides everything you need to deliver the most engaging STEAM and Coding learning experience in your classroom with Hardware, Software and curriculum-aligned lesson plans

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They are basically a bluetooth humming bird. They can be use to make sounds at a high definition. They can be used in English, for a podcast to make sound effects and lights if your recording a video.

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If you want to use SAMLabs, there are two ways to go about it:

1. Download the software! This is not block coding, but a drag and drop type setup.
Mac: https://int.samlabs.com/pages/installers-legacy-software
Windows: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/sam-space/9n8th6q0fl2x?rtc=1&activetab=pivot:overviewtab

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2. Use the block coding program online:
https://blockly.samlabs.com/toolbox/programming

Once you are set up with a program, choose your blocks and turn them on with the buttons on the side. They should glow red. Then connect them with your program and have fun programming!

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This youtube video describes and explains step by step about how it works.

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The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to 3D Printing - Part 1

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My MEA trophy

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This is my Quran trophy for Islamic

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Very Simple, Just a different type of trophy,its very unique.

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layan julia and macy  6btc

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Leo and I created a mesh square panel. Unfortunately, it was later destroyed by an unknown. We hope that you can print

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this is my first time to actual create something on tinker cat, At first it may have been bit hard to change the shapes, but as I did the second task things were bit more easier since I tried controling the shapes

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I found this by searching for car designs. When I found one I liked, I made a few edits and posted it. It was easy. This is my second time using Tinkercad.

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This was the first time I used Tinkercad. It was easy and it finished very fast. I also taught few people how to send a project to the teacher.

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SketchUp Tutorial – How to Get Started with SketchUp (5 Tips for Beginners)

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I found this easy as I just put a dice, a cylinder and a star together, then changed their positions and colors to create this. I have used Tinkercad once before.

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How To: Use Tinkercad 3D Design Software 101