#sparkcore

[4hackrr-blog]

The Spark Core with chip antenna rev 1.0. This tiny board is old and I think it was discontinue and it was replaced with the new Particle Photon board. I still keep it around and probably use it in a future project. #sparkcore #wifimodule #4hackrr #follow

[floridageeks-blog]

The Latest in Microcontrollers: 11 Cutting-Edge Boards That Are Driving Diversity | Make: DIY Projects, How-Tos, Electronics, Crafts and Ideas for Makers

In the last year and a half, we’ve seen an explosion of new boards, and there doesn’t appear to be any reason to expect the trend to slow down in the near future.

[zipporobotics]

Italy, Day 67: got my #photon #sparkcore #coding #Divarobot #zipporobotics #progress (while fighting with the f****** italian vodafone for the fiber)

[2xaa]

Push my buttons, you know you wanna

[hellospoonstories]

Spark Core just arrived!

What are we planning to do with it?

Well, we want to transform HelloSpoon in a Cloud robot to give the chance of being tele operated from any family member/caregiver/nurse if it's needed without being in the same room and create a richer experience.

We believe that it will be a very useful feature! But it will be experimental at this moment because we'll need to remove completely the actual board (OpenCM-9.04).

[atownrobots]

My Spark Core, Adafruit Neopixel, Tix clock is finally done!!!

[interactiveexperiences-blog]

https://www.spark.io/

Spark core is a pretty cool Arduino friendly microcontroller that utilizes WIFI. Check it out

[atownrobots]

finally ordering parts

So I have completed my shopping list for the tix clock and I am about to order the parts.

So far I have ordered:

a power supply

LEDs (adafruit's neopixels)

74HCT245 level shifter (more on this to come)

And already have on hand:

300 to 500 Ohm resistor(s)

the spark core

wire

tools for soldering, etc

And need to order:

capacitor (1000 µF, 6.3V or higher) 

Adafruit's uberguide on their neopixels pointed out a few best practices that made me add some of the above parts. I will also be visiting technobly's github page again soon to port the neopixel library over to the spark core.

While I am waiting for them to arrive I am going to doing some prototyping for the case and maybe work on writing a bit of the code using just a few regular LEDs.

This will allow me to figure out how to use the park core to communicate with third party API's such as google (for the new unread message feature), weatherunderground (for the weather beacon feature) and since it is a clock and all maybe I should try getting the time from the work wide interwebs and see if I can display it in some fashion (like on LCD screen I have) just as proof of concept.

That will be more than enough to keep me busy and with adafruit's super fast shipping I doubt I will even be able to come close to getting that all working before the parts arrives.