(Goofy) Photon Servo Notifier: A Step Toward a Wifi-Connected Book (#IoT)

Taking inspiration from Jie Qi and Natalie Freed, I am embarking upon a quest to create a wifi-connected book. My plan, which won't be fully realized until the spring, is to embed a Particle Photon microcontroller that can send or receive data through Particle Build.

Paired with a free open-source Internet of Things (IoT) platform called If Then Than That, anyone can use a variety of common apps to connect with and control physical objects, such as the LEDs in a book, wearable, or other type of physical object.  My project applies one simple way that the Photon, receiving data from Google Calendar, might be used as a component in a pop-up structure that might be set upon a tabletop or nested inside of a wifi-connected book.

Watch this video to learn how to power a servo motor using a Photon and IFTTT. 

Here is the link to my Week 12 Reflection/ Final Project, detailing the creation of this project, as well as links to standards, learning resources, and the code I wrote.  

To learn more about some of the work that I've been doing to learn about the Photon, feel free to peruse my Create with Code blog.

(Goofy) Photon Servo NotifierBlog Post by Jill Dawson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.