The Dashboard

So hopefully you have your Particle Core connected to your Wi-Fi network and have succeeded in flashing new code to the board over the air. Wireless programming has many benefits but there is more to the Particle Core, which makes it very interesting for wearable applications. What's the point of being connected to the Internet if we can't use it to send data? The people behind the Particle Core have already thought of this and have implemented some really nice features for data transfers and remote communication with the board.

First off, there is the Particle Dashboard, which you can find at the following link: https://dashboard.particle.io.

This will open up a website, which should look something like Figure 8.5. If you are logged in to the web IDE, the dashboard should automatically open. If not, you need to enter your account information, which is the same as for the app and web IDE:

Figure 8.5: The Particle Dashboard

This dashboard is able to visualize data sent from the...