Hello, so I got my Photon Maker kit in the mail. I followed the getting started guide and all was well and good. However, where can I learn about how to use the other components in the Maker kit? The getting started ends and leaves you with no avenues to learn more about how to connect pins on your…

Ping @christine Sorry about that! I dont have a Maker kit so i cannot help to test the OLED screen. Sparkfun is an electronics distributor and made some really cool kits and add-ons for Particle devices. The Maker Kit you bought is offered by Particle so let’s try putting more examples to help eve…

Hey there, welcome to the community! I'll try and answer some of your concerns/questions. [image] cr_huber: I have zero knowledge on Particle and Arduino and all the tutorials Ive looked at are so confusing and seem to imply that you have knowledge on all the components. What experience do …

Particle is Arduino like and most things translate easily but it really is just something you'll have to pickup as you go. As for the oled check this thread and find @peekay123 's port of the adafruit libs. I think there are even examples of how to wire it. If not msg me and I'll shoot you a pin map …

The OLED that came with your Photon Kit is called: - OLED 0.96inch 12864 display module blue. The sad part is i have the same kit and i also found no help as well on how to set it up or even just run “Hello World” on it. Its really not to much help online right now with a step by step process tutor…

Also answered here [image] Adafruit SSD1306 [SOLVED] Libraries The Adafruit_SSD1306 library that can be found in Particle Build (Web IDE) does work for the display coming with the kit. If building in Particle Build (Web IDE) you need to change the includes in the demos to…

If you are new to electronics and/or microcontrollers in general, then I could totally understand being confused and overwhelmed. There’s a lot to learn, and trying to find the right information in the vast sea of the web can be hard when you don’t already know what questions to ask. The Photon is g…

That is very understandable. I have personally done all the blink leds ( about 20 different ones) examples a noob can do at this point. I even went so far as watching a Arduino tutorial to hook up the pir sensor that came with the photon kit and got it working. So at this point for me i at least wan…

Totally agree with you there. I have Arduino envy now because I could have just got an arduino and followed tonnes of basic tutorials. Instead, I’m stuck on blinking lights. While its cool that I have wifi access - more tutorials would be nice.

Lots of projects you can replicate can be found on https://www.hackster.io/particle/projects They are Particle based projects. Enjoy!

I was in the same scenario, new to IoT and photon and arduino “sketches” and ino files. the best place I found for the “maker kit” was at github: https://github.com/sparkfun/Inventors_Kit_For_Photon_Experiments Lots of great information for the parts that come in the kit. Hope that helps. ~Clayto…

Getting started with Photon Maker Kit totally confused

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Getting started with Photon Maker Kit totally confused

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