Resources

Online Resources and Examples

Suggest additions by email or on slack

Particle Platform

• Particle.io

• Platform documentation - guides to the photon

• Community - discussion board with code samples, tutorials and projects

• Hackster Channel - well documented examples of projects created using particle

Programming, Debugging and Testing

• There are two main ways to develop your code for Particle Projects. You can either use Particle Build (an online IDE) and write your code in the browser or you can use Particle Dev (a desktop IDE available for Windows, Linux and OSX ) to write code on your computer. Particle Dev is recommended.

• For more advanced users, the Particle Command Line Interface (CLI) is extremely useful for code development, firmware deployment, device management and more. See also the CLI Docs

• Particle Console - an invaluable tool for seeing the status of your devices, calling functions, checking variables, monitoring events and more.

Advanced Particle Resources

• SparkJS - javascript framework for particle devices

• iOS SDK - mobile framework for particle devices

Tutorials on Programming Microcontrollers and creating IOT devices

• Sparkfun Tutorials incl. Intro to Basic Electronics and Photon Development Guide

• AdaFruit Learning

• Fritizing Getting started

• Getting Started with Arduino

• Arduino Programming Reference

• Intro to Arduino PDF

• Arduino Programming Cheat Sheet

Code Examples

• Particle Annotated Examples

• Example Arduino Sketches and Examples

Inspiration

• CreativeApplications: IoT and Arduino projects

• Particle Projects on Hackster.io - http://www.hackster.io/spark

• Particle Project Share on the community forums

• Internet of Useless Things

Buying Electronics, Hardware and Components

• Adafruit

• Sparkfun

• DigiKey

Consumer Connected Products

• IOTList houses an incredible list of currently available consumer products. A great resource.

• Nest’s Intelligent Smoke Alarm and Thermostat

• Amazon Echo

• Mellow

• Vessyl

• LG appliances

• Olive

• Berg’s Little Printer, Pixel Track, CloudWash and #Flock

• Mimo Baby

• Clever Pet

• FooBar an Automated Cocktail Dispenser

Ambient Intelligent Toolkits

• Google Now

• Wink

• HugIn

Data and API’s

• Temboo - https://temboo.com

• Twitter - https://dev.twitter.com

• Data.gov - http://www.data.gov

• DataHub - http://datahub.io

• Zapier - https://zapier.com/how-it-works/

• If This Then That - https://ifttt.com

Other Toolkits and Boards

Using the Particle Framework

In this course we use the Particle Photon, but there are a range of other devices that can allow you to build connected products and projects.

• Particle Electron - supports the dev of IoT applications over cellular communications (2G, 3G)

• The Bluz and RedBear Duo both use the Particle framework but support BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) communciations

• Raspberry Pi’s also play nice with the Particle framework but allow you to program more advanced computation (e.g. camera based applications, audio recording/sensing, interaction with USB periperhals, interaction with screens, etc.)

Beyond These

• http://fritzing.org/home/

• http://littlebits.cc

• http://www.makeymakey.com

• https://www.processing.org