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Nick Schwab

Nick Schwab

Alexa, launch Opening Bell

Strangely enough, Amazon Alexa isn’t able to look up stock prices out-of-the-box. Fortunately, Alexa’s developer platform allowed me to…

Apr 22, 2016

Apr 22, 2016

Nick Schwab

Alexa, open Bargain Buddy

Bargain Buddy, my first Amazon Alexa voice “Skill”, is officially available to be added to your Echo device of choice! The Skill is capable…

Apr 14, 2016

Apr 14, 2016

Nick Schwab

Sky Watch Face for Android Wear

In an ongoing effort to better my Android development skills, I decided to build another Android Wear watch face. Unlike the Simple Faces…

Apr 3, 2016

Sky Watch Face for Android Wear

Apr 3, 2016

Nick Schwab

Moto 360 Woes

As if Motorola’s decision to not make things right with my [literally] crumbling 1st generation Moto X wasn’t enough, I recently had to…

Nov 23, 2015

Moto 360 Woes

Nov 23, 2015

Nick Schwab

Why I’ll never buy a Motorola smartphone again

Update 1 (8/13/2015) — I’m currently in contact with a Motorola Representative on their product forums and will follow up with the outcome…

Sep 13, 2015

Why I’ll never buy a Motorola smartphone again

Sep 13, 2015

Nick Schwab

Tools of the Trade

A few tools you should consider taking advantage of for your projects:

Sep 13, 2015

Sep 13, 2015

Nick Schwab

Music DNA

Googler Paul Lewis released a cool little project called “Music DNA” which creates a circular visualization of any audio file you throw at…

Sep 13, 2015

Music DNA

Sep 13, 2015

Nick Schwab

7 Days with Pebble

I’ve now been wearing my Pebble smartwatch for a week (which only today have I had to recharge) and can honestly say that the device is a…

Sep 13, 2015

7 Days with Pebble

Sep 13, 2015

Nick Schwab

More Pebble Mockups

The biggest challenge is keeping the UX simple, yet functional…

Sep 13, 2015

More Pebble Mockups

Sep 13, 2015

Nick Schwab

Pebble Mockups

I’m a backer of Pebble, the E-Paper watch which took KickStarter by storm to the tune of $10 million from 68,929 supporters. Although I’m…

Sep 13, 2015

Pebble Mockups

Sep 13, 2015

Nick Schwab

Nick Schwab

Amazon Alexa Champion and creator of https://alexasounds.com. Built the entire backend of @smtracker, @WeAreWisely, and @Ambassador.

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