RETIRED - Photon Weather Shield Hookup Guide
This Tutorial is Retired!
This tutorial covers concepts or technologies that are no longer current. It's still here for you to read and enjoy, but may not be as useful as our newest tutorials.
View the updated tutorial: Photon Weather Shield Hookup Guide V11
Contributors:
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Resources and Going Further
Here are a few links that should help with any further questions you may have about the Photon Weather Shield:
- SparkFun Photon Weather Shield GitHub Repo -- this is where to go for all the example code and hardware files.
- 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.
If you would like to use the Photon and the Weather shield with Microsoft's cloud service, Azure, check out this great tutorial by Paul DeCarlo.
Using some additional stackable headers, the Weather Shield pairs very well with any of our other Photon Shields. Check out our hookup guides for those shields:
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