Particle

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What's Covered:

• Building a hardware and software sensor to Nomad
• Publishing your data stream
• Possible Next steps
• Demo Code
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What you need:

• Particle Photon or Electron
• Particle account
• Wireless Network

Circuit

Components

Schematic

Before connecting the particle or electron to power connect the Motion Sensor to pin A1 and the Light Sensor to pin A0. Then connect both sensors to GND and 3v3. Now connect the board to power.

Code

If you do not already have a Particle account Sign up for one now. Next lets look at the syntax we will be using to send our sensor data from the Particle Cloud to Nomad. To publish data from your microcontroller to the Co...

Particle.publish("Name",Data,Time,Privacy);

Motion Sensor

Particle.publish("Motion", "I spy with my Little Eye", 30, PUBLIC);

Light Sensor

Particle.publish("Light", String(LightValue), 30, PUBLIC);

Example Code

/************************
 * Company | IDEO
 * Department | CoLAB
 * Project | Nomad to Particle
 *
 * Build | Version 1
 * *********************/

// VARIABLES //
#define BoardLED D7

int DELAY = 1000;
int n;

//  Main  //
void setup() {
  Serial.begin(115200); //
  pinMode(BoardLED, OUTPUT); //
}

void loop() {
  digitalWrite(BoardLED, HIGH); // BoardLED will Turn ON at begining of sensor checkSensors
  checkSensors();
  digitalWrite(BoardLED, LOW); // BoardLED will Turn OFF at begining of sensor checkSensors
  delay(DELAY);
}

// FUNCATIONS //
void checkSensors(){
  Light(); // Run Function Light()
  Motion(); // Run Function Motion()
  delay(10);
}
void Light(){
  int snsrLight = analogRead(A0);
  Particle.publish("Light", String(snsrLight), 30, PUBLIC);
}
void Motion(){
  int snsrMotion = D0;
  int snsrMotionState = LOW;
  int val = 0;
  val = digitalRead(snsrMotion);
    if (val == HIGH) {
      if (snsrMotionState == LOW) {
        //Particle.publish("Motion", "All Clear!", 30, PUBLIC);
        snsrMotionState = HIGH;
      }
    } else {
      if (snsrMotionState == HIGH){
        Particle.publish("Motion", "I see something!", 30, PUBLIC);
        snsrMotionState = LOW;
      }
    }
}

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