Lesson 2 – WICED Bluetooth: Your First Project(s)

Summary For our first project, I am going to stand on the shoulder of giants.  In 1978, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie published “The C Programming Language”.  Here are pictures of my copy. The reason you do “Hello, World” is that you want to make sure that your compiler chain, programmer etc are all working […]

Serial Wire View with PSOC4

I use PSOC4 to invent all kinds of unique solutions for customers. Usually, they want them field upgradeable to deploy new features or fix bugs. Fortunately Cypress has a great I2C boot loader to meet this need, so I use the heck out of it. Cypress has a great debugger built into PSOC Creator which […]

Particle Photon: Elkhorn Creek Depth

Summary In the previous article I showed you all of the components of the Particle Photon Ecosystem.  All that is cool.  But what can you build?  I have written extensively about the Elkhorn Creek in my backyard, and the system that I built to monitor the water level.  As part of that series of articles I explained that […]

Particle Photon: An Overview of the Particle Ecosystem

Summary Over the last few days I have spent some time with the Particle Photon and looking around at the Particle Cloud, the Development Kits, the Documentation and Development Tools.  Fundamentally, Particle has built a very ambitious end-to-end cloud development platform.  I think that they have everything necessary to built a complete IoT solution into your system. […]