Teaching High School Robotics with the Spark Photon

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Been doing some work with IFTTT. see the link at

Photon publish to IFTTT to PHP to IFTTT and back to the Photon

This is so cool that I made it into it’s own topic. Say you wanted a PHP file or database to crunch some numbers for your photon and send the information back to the photon. Example: You need to check an employees number from a fingerprint scanner or RFID tag against a database. (Note: This tutorial does not use any mySQL database stuff since that is another level of confusion, for here I just what to prove that the Photon can communicate with IFTTT and a php webpage without using any AJAX ) A…

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Beginner Tutorial: IFTTT Publish an Event + Spark Internet Button

This is a DRAFT: It looks like a webpage can publish an event on IFTTT, using the Maker channel on IFTTT. Here is some working code. First a webpage code, with a form to POST data to IFTTT, an image of that page, then the IFTTT page, then an optional php page that saves the sent variables to a file as proof that the event was fired. <html> <head> <title>HTML form to IFTTT </title> </head> <body onload="{ myStorage1 = localStorage.getItem('myStoredText1') if(myStorage1 != null){ …