Love making things with the Particle Core and Photon? Just getting started? Either way, this page should have some links with guides, tutorials and a bunch of existing projects out there that might inspire your development adventures with the cloud connected microcontroller!
Getting Started
- Getting Started with the Particle Photon [official]
- Getting Started with the Particle Core [official]
- Getting Started with the Particle Photon [SitePoint]
Useful Links
- Monitoring Your Particle Devices With IFTTT [SitePoint]
- Running the Particle Cloud locally on a Raspberry Pi [GitBook]
- How to Make an Effective Particle IoT Dashboard without Coding [SitePoint]
Interesting Project Tutorials
- Cloud Connected NeoPixels Using The Particle Core [SitePoint]
- Home Automation using Particle and Amazon Echo [Hackster.io]
- Open Your Garage Door with a Smart Phone and Particle Core [Make]
- How to Make a Useful Toggl Time Tracker with Particle and Node [SitePoint]
- Physical Web Candy Machine [Hackster.io]
- Particle Controller Wall-e Robot [Instructables]
- Particle Powered Basketball Arcade Game [Hackster.io]
- Particle Wi-Fi Bridge for a Texas Instruments Calculator [Cemetech]
Using Particle Core with Node
- Spark Node API [npm]
- A Firmata-compatibility IO class for Particle [npm] – Compatible with Johnny-Five
- Introduction to IoT Programming with JavaScript [O’Reilly Course] – contains a section on Particle Core and JavaScript (called Spark Core in the course)
Troubleshooting
- Device Modes for Particle Core [official] – Can’t remember what that particular blinking light colour means on your Core?
- Device Modes for Particle Photon [official] – Same deal as above but for your Photon.
- Particle Service Status [official]
- Spark Core Common Issues [official forum post]
Community
Looking to find the LightBlue Bean community? The best spot appears to be their Particle forums.
