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Learning IoT with Particle Photon and Electron

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Published in Sep 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785885297
Pages 136 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rashid Khan Rashid Khan
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Rashid Khan is a programmer living in Bangalore. He is one of the founders of Yellow Messenger, a company that specializes in building bots for commerce. Prior to founding Yellow Messenger, he worked at EdgeVerve Systems, where he built backend systems to support IoT devices. He is an open source enthusiast and loves to experiment with new technologies. He is involved with a number of open source organizations, such as GNOME, Mono, Tomboy Notes, and Banshee and has built a Django (Python) library for Apache Spark called Django-LibSpark. His interests lie in the field of Artificial Intelligence and interfacing software with real-world objects. Apart from programming, he loves to cycle and play tennis.
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Kajari Ghoshdastidar Kajari Ghoshdastidar
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Kajari Ghoshdastidar got her PhD in wireless sensor networks in 2009 and has been active in IoT-related hobby project work since then. She has worked in the software industry for the last 6 years as a technology architect, software developer, and a computer scientist. She is a technology geek, takes part in hackathons, and is always exploring new technologies and electronic gadgets. She is currently part of the systems engineering team at EdgeVerve, working as a computer scientist.
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Ajith Vasudevan Ajith Vasudevan
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Ajith Vasudevan is an electronics, computer, and IoT enthusiast who likes to apply his knowledge in these fields to make modern living easy for himself and others around him. He has a bachelor's of technology degree in electrical and electronics engineering. He was interested in automation and IoT even before the term IoT became commonplace. He designed and built an automatic overhead-tank motor operator using $1 worth of electronic parts back in 1995, which is operating at his parents home to this day. He has automated and made it simple and efficient to operate many household appliances, for example, an automatic geyser switch that turns itself off after 10 minutes, saving electricity. It can be set to switch on at any specified time or can be controlled from anywhere. Today, even his friends and neighbors use this system. Ajith has worked in the heavy electrical industry before joining his current employer, Infosys Technologies Limited, in the year 2000. He is presently a senior computer scientist at EdgeVerve Systems, a subsidiary of Infosys. At work, he enjoys programming and has done so for over a decade and a half.
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Learning IoT with Particle Photon and Electron
Credits
About the Authors
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Introducing IoT with Particle Photon and Electron 2. Fire Up Your Kit 3. P2P and Local Server 4. Connecting the Sensors 5. Of Cars and Controllers 6. Hacking the Firmware

Obtaining and flashing firmware

Microcontrollers do not directly understand human-readable code. The firmware code is written in the C language by the programmer. This needs to be converted to a binary format that can be understood by the Particle microcontrollers. A program called a compiler does this conversion.

A local setup is required to be able to work with firmware. Such a setup provides you with all the software and packages needed to compile and deploy the firmware.

Flashing firmware involves two main steps:

  1. Obtaining firmware.

  2. Burning firmware onto the device.

Obtaining firmware

To be able to flash a firmware, we need to get the firmware file in binary format. There are two ways you can obtain the firmware:

  • Direct download

  • Building from source

Obtaining firmware by direct download

The easiest way to get the latest firmware is to download it from the firmware release page at https://github.com/spark/firmware/releases/.

At the time of writing of this book, the latest firmware available for...

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Profile icon Rashid Khan
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Rashid Khan is a programmer living in Bangalore. He is one of the founders of Yellow Messenger, a company that specializes in building bots for commerce. Prior to founding Yellow Messenger, he worked at EdgeVerve Systems, where he built backend systems to support IoT devices. He is an open source enthusiast and loves to experiment with new technologies. He is involved with a number of open source organizations, such as GNOME, Mono, Tomboy Notes, and Banshee and has built a Django (Python) library for Apache Spark called Django-LibSpark. His interests lie in the field of Artificial Intelligence and interfacing software with real-world objects. Apart from programming, he loves to cycle and play tennis.
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Profile icon Kajari Ghoshdastidar
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Kajari Ghoshdastidar got her PhD in wireless sensor networks in 2009 and has been active in IoT-related hobby project work since then. She has worked in the software industry for the last 6 years as a technology architect, software developer, and a computer scientist. She is a technology geek, takes part in hackathons, and is always exploring new technologies and electronic gadgets. She is currently part of the systems engineering team at EdgeVerve, working as a computer scientist.
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Profile icon Ajith Vasudevan
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Ajith Vasudevan is an electronics, computer, and IoT enthusiast who likes to apply his knowledge in these fields to make modern living easy for himself and others around him. He has a bachelor's of technology degree in electrical and electronics engineering. He was interested in automation and IoT even before the term IoT became commonplace. He designed and built an automatic overhead-tank motor operator using $1 worth of electronic parts back in 1995, which is operating at his parents home to this day. He has automated and made it simple and efficient to operate many household appliances, for example, an automatic geyser switch that turns itself off after 10 minutes, saving electricity. It can be set to switch on at any specified time or can be controlled from anywhere. Today, even his friends and neighbors use this system. Ajith has worked in the heavy electrical industry before joining his current employer, Infosys Technologies Limited, in the year 2000. He is presently a senior computer scientist at EdgeVerve Systems, a subsidiary of Infosys. At work, he enjoys programming and has done so for over a decade and a half.
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