Tessel 2 seems to be a very interesting micro-controller. I also love my Photon.
I’m curious about how they both compare to one another.
The Tessel 2 is indeed a pretty cool platform. It shouldn’t be too difficult to add a Particle cloud connection but I don’t believe anyone has written a HAL adapter in node which would port easily to the Tessel.
It looks like the Tessel 2 is more similar to a Raspberry PI than a Photon but I could be wrong.