- Sat May 16, 2015 12:47 am
#182014
Very frustrated with the promotional material regarding Spark/Particle Photon.
Finally managed to understand that "Spark" was the old name for the people behind Photon, and that it isn't out of Sparkfun.
Although Sparkfun seem very excited... or want to be seen as excited?... about the Photon.
But the vagueness about HOW DO YOU PROGRAM IT has me completely switched off.
As does the difficulty in finding any useful information about the product and programming it on the web. I opposed the Pi in the early days because of its lack (then) of an informed and helpful user community.
Photon may be great hardware, but I'm afraid that "If we build it they will come" doesn't work for me.
I finally found....
And if they "go away", all of your hardware and the time you spent to master it are immediately compromised.
My plan? Ignore Proton and any further Proton marketing. Until a proper open-source, compile on your own system, development package is available. Of course, I may miss the announcement of the development package. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Now... where did I put my Arduino...? My Pi?
Finally managed to understand that "Spark" was the old name for the people behind Photon, and that it isn't out of Sparkfun.
Although Sparkfun seem very excited... or want to be seen as excited?... about the Photon.
But the vagueness about HOW DO YOU PROGRAM IT has me completely switched off.
As does the difficulty in finding any useful information about the product and programming it on the web. I opposed the Pi in the early days because of its lack (then) of an informed and helpful user community.
Photon may be great hardware, but I'm afraid that "If we build it they will come" doesn't work for me.
I finally found....
Particle Dev is a desktop application that allows you to work with local copies of your firmware files. However, internet access is required as the files are pushed to the Particle Cloud for compilation and returns a binary. i.e. This is not an offline development tool....In other words: All of "your" code will be available to others, even if they are promising not to do anything bad with it.
And if they "go away", all of your hardware and the time you spent to master it are immediately compromised.
My plan? Ignore Proton and any further Proton marketing. Until a proper open-source, compile on your own system, development package is available. Of course, I may miss the announcement of the development package. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Now... where did I put my Arduino...? My Pi?
Arduino "How To"s at http://bit.ly/ArduHowTo