# Teaching High School Robotics with the Spark Photon

**URL:** <https://community.particle.io/t/teaching-high-school-robotics-with-the-spark-photon/11684>\
**Category:** Getting Started\
**Created:** [May 8, 2015, 8:25pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/teaching-high-school-robotics-with-the-spark-photon/11684 "2015-05-08T20:25:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![rocksetta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/rocksetta/32/5099_2.png) [@rocksetta](https://community.particle.io/u/rocksetta)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2015, 10:41pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/teaching-high-school-robotics-with-the-spark-photon/11684/26 "2015-11-29T22:41:59Z")

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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](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-publish-to-ifttt-to-php-to-ifttt-and-back-to-the-photon/17736):
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> 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…

and at

> [@Beginner Tutorial: IFTTT Publish an Event + Spark Internet Button](https://community.particle.io/t/beginner-tutorial-ifttt-publish-an-event-spark-internet-button/10270/12):
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> 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){ …

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