Particle Photon

"R&D done for OpenQQuantify www.openqquantify.com as a software engineer" . Overview Particle's Internet of Things hardware development kit, the Photon, provides everything you need to build a connected product. Particle combines a powerful ARM Cortex M3 microcontroller with a Broadcom Wi-Fi chip in a tiny thumbnail-sized module called the PØ (P-zero). To get you started quickly, Particle adds a rock solid 3.3VDC SMPS power supply, RF and user interface components to the PØ on a small single-sided PCB called the Photon. The design is open source, so when you're ready to integrate the Photon into your product, you can. The Photon comes in two physical forms: with headers and without. Prototyping is easy with headers as the Photon plugs directly into standard breadboards and perfboards, and may also be mounted with 0.1" pitch female headers on a PCB. To minimize space required, the Photon form factor without headers has castellated edges. These make it possible to surface mount the Photon directly onto your PCB. Features Particle PØ Wi-Fi module Broadcom BCM43362 Wi-Fi chip 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi STM32F205RGY6 120Mhz ARM Cortex M3 1MB flash, 128KB RAM On-board RGB status LED (ext. drive provided) 18 Mixed-signal GPIO and advanced peripherals Open source design Real-time operating system (FreeRTOS) Soft AP setup FCC (United States), CE (European Union), and ISED (Canada) certified Device OS Support It is recommended that you use the latest version in the 2.x LTS release line with the all Photons. While the devices are compatible with older versions of Device OS and 3.x, these versions as past the end-of-support date and are not recommended for use in production. Only 2.x LTS remains in the Extended Support and Maintenance (ESM) window. For information on upgrading Device OS, see Version information. For the latest version shipped from the factory, see Manufacturing firmware versions page. See also Long Term Support (LTS) releases.