Prep: Cloud 4

Intro

This week’s studios will:

• Explore additional hardware
• Explore the use of WebHooks to “hook into” existing web services
  • Use Particle’s WebHook Support

Studio Prep (Monday)

Bring:

• Photon
• Breadboard
• OLED Screen
• PIR Sensor
• Piezo Buzzer

By Studio you should read/watch/review:

1. AdaFruit’s All the Internet of Things: Protocols Segment on Protocols (Watch the videos and read the page). This overview introduces some of the many protocols (HTTP, MQTT, CoAP), data formats (XML, JSON), and techniques (REST) used for IoT.
2. MDN’s HTTP Messages
3. Khan Academy’s How the Internet Works sequence (particularly the HTTP and HTML unit)
4. WikiPedia’s very short article on WebHooks
5. Particle’s WebHooks support info.