In March 2016 IBM announced an internal contest for IBMers. Contest goal was to create a fun IoT Gadget. At the time I had recently joined the company, so that contest was the perfect excuse to get hands-on experience with IBM cognitive technologies. It was a chance to build something with Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things and whichever other technology I could find in IBM Bluemix (now called IBM Cloud). Continue reading “Cognitive Candy Project: a voice-enabled candy dispensing machine”