About This Workshop

This workshop is sponsored by Particle Industries and produced in cooperation with Reflektor Consult.

The workshop is a combination of an oral presentations and the 4 hands-on sessions described in this guide.

This workshop will take you through the basics of connecting a Particle Argon mesh device to the internet, and have it do amazing stuff. All in just 2 hours.

Program

The scheduled program of the workshop includes both presentations and hands-on sessions.

Title Content
Welcome About this workshop
Particle Basics How to work with Particle devices
Hands-on 1 Getting from Box to Blinky
Libraries Using other people’s code to do more faster
Hands-on 2 Measuring and displaying a distance (Grove Kit)
What a Mesh! Introducing Particle Mesh
Hands-on 3 Set up a mesh network (participants in pairs of two)
The Finale Connect Sensor and Display over the mesh

FAQ

Do I have to attend a workshop to complete the labs?

This site contains in-depth lab documents that complement in-person presentations delivered by Reflektor. Attendance of a workshop isn't strictly required to follow along with these labs, but they are written under the assumption that you're attending a workshop and using workshop-provided hardware to complete the exercises.

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