Please follow the steps at your own pace. I’m going to break the project into several steps. You can easily create a folder and add all the files needed for your code, such as libraries used inside that folder. Particle is very much like Arduino’s IDE.

To simplify the process, I have chosen offline IDE ( Particle Dev ). There are several ways to program your Photon, whether through the cloud (Tinker app) or through an IDE either online or offline. So just by looking at the LED you can tell which mode the Particle is in. It will blink in white if the WiFi module is off. For example, the device blinks in green when it tries to connect to the internet. The device has several modes that can be identified by the color of the embedded RGB LED. It’s essential to review the guide to better understand how the device works and to connects to the internet. I strongly recommend you read through Particle Setup Guide here before you move on. You can now send data directly from Particle to Azure and display results. Particle is one of my favorite microcontrollers (along with Arduino) in the market right now for the following reasons (credit: Particle):īeginning last year, users can start using Microsoft Azure in conjunction with Particle. Psychologically, I'm not sure what's happening, but know I'm intentional about bypassing my phone.Particle is a small microcontroller that enables you to connect your device to the internet and exchange data through web and mobile apps easily. In the morning, I have to reach over to hit the Loftie snooze button, which I get tired of doing after only two snoozes, so I just get up. I set the two-phase alarm-switching between multiple urgent-but-ethereal tones, like Gong and Wisdom, to keep me on my toes-through the Loftie app or the clock itself, hide my phone on its charger behind my curtain on the windowsill, and read a damn book before sleeping.

Habits are hard to break, but Loftie gave me an excuse to change mine. In the morning, I'd hit that snooze button on the iPhone screen about seven times before even acknowledging wakefulness as an option. I tried the whole don't-look-at-your-phone thing before bed, but I had to set alarms, and once I was setting alarms, I was scrolling through baseball Twitter and then watching old Hole performances on YouTube and then getting around to answering some texts, and suddenly it was 45 minutes later and I was wide awake and bathed in blue light. Unfortunately, those people are usually right I suck at sleeping, almost as much as I suck at waking up. Many people will tell you many things about sleep and how much you suck at it. Timothy Mulcare Loftie is a big, old-school improvement on your smartphone.

Smart alarm clock app