Photon Battery Shield Hookup Guide
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Resources and Going Further
If you need any resources detailing the Photon Battery Shield, here are some schematics, datasheets, and other links you may find handy:
- Photon Battery Shield GitHub Repo
- Photon Battery Shield Schematic
- Particle Documentation Pages -- go here to set up and configure your Photon (or other Particle devices)
- Particle Community Forum -- anything that you couldn't find in the docs should be easily found in the community forum. If you are having trouble, search this forum first, as many of the answers are there already.
- MAX17043 LiPo Fuel Gauge Datasheet
- MCP73831 Charge Controller Datasheet
If you are interested in putting your Photon into sleep mode to conserve more battery power, check out the Particle Docs links below:
- Photon System Modes - Playing with different modes allows you to have control over when the Photon is and isn't connected to the web.
- Photon System Sleep Function - The sleep function puts the Photon to sleep while it isn't performing any actions to conserve power.
Now that you've become familiarized with the Photon Battery Shield, what project are you going to make with it? Need some inspiration? Check out the below SparkFun tutorials for some ideas:
HID Control of a Web Page
Learn how to move a slider on a webpage and make a motor spin. We connect HTML and HID to read sensors and interface with the physical world.
Are You Okay? Widget
Use an Electric Imp and accelerometer to create an "Are You OK" widget. A cozy piece of technology your friend or loved one can nudge to let you know they're OK from half-a-world away.
ESP8266 Thing Hookup Guide
An overview of SparkFun's ESP8266 Thing - a development board for the Internet of...Things. This tutorial explains the circuitry driving the board, and how to get it up and running in an Arduino environment.
The Battery Shield pairs very well with any of our other Photon Shields; check out our hookup guides for those shields:
Photon OLED Shield Hookup Guide
The Photon OLED Shield has everything you need to add a small yet crisp OLED screen to your Photon projects. This hookup guide will show you how to get started.
Photon IMU Shield Hookup Guide
Learn how to use the SparkFun Photon IMU Shield for your Photon device which houses an on-board LSM9DS1 system-in-a-chip that houses a 3-axis accelerometer, 3-axis gyroscope, and 3-axis magnetometer.