Raspberry Pi Joins Particle Cloud Service

2016-12-05 | By Maker.io Staff

Raspberry Pi

If you familiar with the Particle Photon and Particle Electron, then you will know how awesome the Particle Cloud is for Particle’s IoT devices. On the 22nd of November 2016 Particle will be releasing its Particle cloud service to millions of Raspberry Pi users. Much like the InitialState cloud service users will have the option to choose their service plan starting with a free account to get started with.

The Particle Cloud service for Raspberry Pi will be released in Beta mode for the first 1,000 developers that signed up on their website and then slowly rolled out to the other users.

Raspberry Pi 3 Perfect IoT Platform

Particle chose to work with the Raspberry Pi for a number of reasons. Firstly, it is the most popular single board computer ever made with over 10 million boards sold worldwide; secondly, the Raspberry Pi 3 board now features built-in wireless such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth making it perfect for IoT projects. Zach Supalla CEO of Particle talked about the new features that will be available for Raspberry Pi users:

• Simple Arduino Code: Use the existing Particle Web IDE, and program your Pi with Wiring. No more complicated tooling, setup, or scripting to perform simple tasks like trigger a pin, blink an LED, or read a sensor value
• Over-the-Air Updates: Safely reprogram code running on your Pi’s one at a time in the Web IDE or as a fleet of devices in the Console
• Batch Script Execution: Remotely execute customized scripts on groups of Raspberry Pi’s using the exec command
• Remote Data Collection: Collect and publish data to the Particle Cloud, or store it locally by logging it on your Pi
• Integrations: Integrate with IFTTT, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure

A Particle-Enhanced Pi Security Camera

The team at Particle have already started producing some documentation to get started with including a security camera project, which uses a motion sensor, camera and NeoPixel rings to illuminate. The security camera detects infrared presence and takes a picture of what might be the intruder, then it uploads the images to the web using the Particle Cloud. You can take a look at this project in detail from the Particle website.

Zach Supalla, (11-15-16). Raspberry Pi joins the Particle Cloud. Retrieved from https://blog.particle.io/2016/11/15/raspberry-pi-joins-the-particle-cloud/

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