Reflection

o Following the tutorial is immensely helpful in learning how Particle works, and especially to get everything set up and code implemented on the circuit.

o Connecting Particle, and writing the code is documented beautifully in the documentation.

o It was a little challenging to understand the Particle.function as apparently only integers can be sent back as the ‘return_value’ variable, preventing fun messages to be exported like “Complete!”.

o Finally, it was really fun to use the command line to access the functions. Finding the access token was a little challenging to jump into several other webpages.

o Aside from the return_value variable lesson, the command can only be in the String format, and not able to be changed at all.

o Implementation on the code can be much faster when understanding C/C++ better.

o Particle signal can be disrupted, especially in Exercise 3 of Making a Connected LED. When one LED is blinking, a signal to turn on the second LED will cut out the first LED, causing the first LED to wait for the second LED to finish blinking before it can complete its full blinking cycle.

Next Steps

o Testing out timing of the LED blinks to prevent disruption would need more exploration.