Particle Photon

Particle Photon is a tiny Wi-Fi development kit for creating connected projects and products for the Internet of Things.

Particle Photon, more information

Particle's Internet of Things hardware development kit, the Photon, provides everything you need to build a connected product. Particle combines a powerful ARM Cortex M3 micro-controller with a Broadcom Wi-Fi chip in a tiny thumbnail-sized module called the P-zero.

To get you started quickly, Particle adds a rock solid 3.3VDC SMPS power supply, RF and user interface components to the P-zero on a small single-sided PCB called the Photon. The design is open source, so when you're ready to integrate the Photon into your product, you can.

Prototyping is easy with headers as the Photon plugs directly into standard breadboards and perfboards, and may also be mounted with 0.1" pitch female headers on a PCB. To minimize space required, the Photon form factor without headers has castellated edges. These make it possible to surface mount the Photon directly onto your PCB.

Features:

• Particle P-zero Wi-Fi module
  • Broadcom BCM43362 Wi-Fi chip
  • 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi
  • STM32F205RGY6 120Mhz ARM Cortex M3
  • 1MB flash, 128KB RAM
• On-board RGB status LED (ext. drive provided)
• 18 Mixed-signal GPIO and advanced peripherals
• Open source design
• Real-time operating system (FreeRTOS)
• Soft AP setup
• FCC, CE and IC certified