Check if your board works with this project https://go.particle.io/shared_apps/5a37b8b8e59b62cef1001011 if it doesn’t, then it’s either a wiring problem or a dead board problem. Remember to connect RST pin to D3 because you have it to A1 and in my project I use it at D3.
The code was taken from the github of one of the guys who posted in the thread of 2014.