Code Introduction

This IoT Code Guidebook is a supplement the IoT Project Guidebook.

What's in this Guidebook?

This guidebook contains a series of IoT code tutorials to help you get familiar with using your IoT electronics kit to build smart devices and program apps for them.

In addition, this guidebook contains coding references to help show and explain how to create a device app and web app that interact with each other through the internet. There are also references that show and explain how to connect specific inputs and outputs to your device and how to add code in your device app to control the inputs and outputs.

Finally, this guidebook also contains links to external resources, such as an online code editor (web IDE) for creating your device app, programming language references, and additional experiments for learning how to use your IoT kit.

// example code block

void setup() {

}

void loop() {

}

Your IoT Electronics Kit

This guidebook is tailored for an IoT electronics kit called the SparkFun Inventor's Kit for Photon, which will simply be referred to as the Photon kit.

SparkFun sells a variety of other sensors and outputs that can be used with the Photon kit. If possible, it is highly recommended to add an ultrasonic sensor to the kit for more design possibilities.

FYI: This IoT code tutorial focuses on coding web apps (using JavaScript) that interact with a Photon device. However, it is also possible to code native mobile apps for iOS and Android (using Objective-C, Swift, or Java) that interact with a Photon device.

Copyright © 2015-2025 by Jim Lyst and Michael Frontz, Indiana University Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indianapolis.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. You are free to use, share, or adapt this material for noncommercial purposes as long as you provide proper attribution and distribute any copies or adaptations under this same license.

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