The various skills drew well on projects we had done earlier. The wakeup
call was something Lisa had already created, and liked. That was
integrated without many changes. Telling a story was quite simple, but
required a good deal of coding to speak just a short story. Singing a
song was difficult, in that it never sounded right to Lisa (mainly due to
the fact that we could not control the Bricket's pitch sufficiently*). Her
idea to have it tell her the weather borrowed an idea from my earlier
suggestion of making a "weather station". This was accomplished
simply by extending a sensor cable to tape a temperature sensor to her
window.