Particle Core Setup

We want to setup the particle core via usb.

1. Plug in your usb cable to your computer and the particle core.

2. Run particle-cli setup

particle setup

3. Enter your email address and password, this will create an account on particle.io.

4. Detect your wifi, you should have a handout that contains the wifi info, use it to send your particle core the wifi information.

You should see the core light go from blinking blue to breathing cyan:

http://docs.particle.io/core/connect/

If you get any errors please let one of the mentors know.

5. Flash the core

You will need to have dfu-util installed to load firmware to a usb connected device.

• OSX dfu-util with homebrew: brew install dfu-util
• Linux
• windows https://community.particle.io/t/tutorial-installing-dfu-driver-on-windows-24-feb-2015/3518 Once your particle core is connected via wifi, we need to flash the core with the voodoospark cpp file

6. Checkout voodoospark

git clone  https://github.com/voodootikigod/voodoospark.git
cd voodoospark

7. Flashing the voodoospark firmware

Before flashing the firmware you will need to get your particle flashing yellow so that it can be detected To do this:

• Press on both buttons
• release the reset button while still pressing on the mode button
• when the particle starts blinking yellow, you can release the mode button and it is now ready to flash

particle cloud flash --usb firmware/voodoospark.cpp --force

or alternatively you can do it over wifi once you have your particle setup to connect to the Internet

particle cloud flash <deviceId> firmware/voodoospark.cpp

8. Get your Device ID and Access Token

To get your device id simply Run

particle list

To get your access token

In you home directory there should be a folder called .particle and in that folder a file called particle.config.json - in that file should be your access token.