Particle Cookbook
A collection of programming snippets, tips, and tricks for developing with Particle IoT devices.
Devices
The Particle ecosystem of devices along with their Particle Cloud platform make it simple for hobbyists and product developers to create connected projects. Their product line currently includes:
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Wifi: Core, Photon, Argon
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Cellular: (2G/3G/LTE): Electron, Boron
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Mesh: (based on IEEE 802.15.4-2006): Xenon, Argon, Boron
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Bluetooth: RedBear Duo, RedBear Nano, Xenon, Argon, Boron
The RedBear product line is still available for sale, but it is unclear whether Particle will continue to develop or support them.
Particle Mesh devices are capable of supporting Bluetooth 5, but the software APIs are still under development as of January 2019.
Development Tools
Particle provides many excellent tools for developing software for their devices, including a browser-based Web IDE, Particle Workbench (an IDE built on Microsoft Visual Studio Code), and Particle CLI (a command-line experience).
Particle Workbench allows you to build and flash firmware locally, for Windows, Mac, and Linux, and Particle CLI is an excellent tool for building firmware or managing your Particle devices.
You can choose to install and use Particle's Device OS toolchain directly if you wish by setting up the environment manually, or by using a third-party utility like po-util.
Particle has a detailed documentation of the firmware libraries, tutorials, and sample code, which covers most anything you need to know, and the community forums are a great resource when you have questions. If you have a question about how to hook up some odd sensor, or how to use a certain code library, send data to a third-party service, or just about anything really, you'll often find the answer in the forums.
In fact, the forums are chock-full of great information, tips, little-known facts, pointers to other tools, etc. So full, that it can be overwhelming. Sometimes when you have a problem, you aren't even sure what to search for. And sometimes, you don't even know that a feature exists, because you've just never run across it before.
Purpose
This Cookbook is an attempt to address this problem by collecting and (hopefully) organizing some of these hidden gems so that you don't have to waste time searching through the forums, trying to filter out tons of unanswered questions, or long threads that touch on a topic, then spin off in another direction, or trying to piece together bits of the technically excellent firmware documentation into a code example that works for your particular, unusual use-case.
Topics
- Data Handling
- Local Mesh Device Setup
- Mesh
- Particle Workbench
- Powering Projects
- Sleep Modes
- System Thread
See Also:
github.com/rickkas7 Particle Technical Documentation Writer @rickkas7 has several good tutorials and example code in his Github.
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Contributions Welcome
If you have suggestions, additions, corrections, complaints, or whatever, please feel free to let me know. Pull Requests welcome. For now, I'm just making this a collection of Markdown files, but I'm open to suggestions for other organizational schemes (wiki, CMS, category/tag hierarchies, ...).
Credits
The Particle Cookbook was originally created by Dougal Campbell. Fellow community member Nathan Robinson quickly jumped in with typo fixes, formatting and organizational improvements, and the initial Github Pages implementation. And of course, this project wouldn't have happened without the invaluable information shared on the Particle Community Forums by countless other selfless contributors. Wherever possible, this Cookbook will link out to original source material, to give credit where credit is due.
The original version of this project can be found at: