The Particle Photon and Particle Electron are connected microcontrollers from Particle (http://particle.io), the company formerly known as Spark Devices. The Photon uses a Wi-Fi connection to the Particle cloud, and the Electron uses a 3G wireless connection. Once the Photon or Electron connects to the network, it automatically connects with a central server (the "Particle Cloud") and stays connected so it can be controlled from external systems, such as a Gobot program. To run Gobot programs please make sure you are running default Tinker firmware on the Photon or Electron.
For more info about the Particle platform go to https://www.particle.io/
Installing Gobot with Particle support is pretty easy.
go get -d -u gobot.io/x/gobot/...
package main
import (
"time"
"gobot.io/x/gobot"
"gobot.io/x/gobot/drivers/gpio"
"gobot.io/x/gobot/platforms/particle"
)
func main() {
core := particle.NewAdaptor("device_id", "access_token")
led := gpio.NewLedDriver(core, "D7")
work := func() {
gobot.Every(1*time.Second, func() {
led.Toggle()
})
}
robot := gobot.NewRobot("spark",
[]gobot.Connection{core},
[]gobot.Device{led},
work,
)
robot.Start()
}