I attended Deren's Friday night workshop, and it was a lot of fun. In a team with two other people, we connected our Photon to our Breadboard, and used my iPad to connect to the wireless network associated with the Photon. We used my IFTTT account to set up a recipe to turn the LED light on depending on the weather conditions. When the wireless connection cut out, our team connected the photon to laptop via USB.
I really enjoyed learning about this other functionality for IFTTT. I have used this service before to connect Tumblr, and Twitter - only online programs and social media. I didn't actually know that it could be used to connect to a physical device. So turning the light on via IFTTT was really exciting and new!
My favourite part of this lamp, which I still have, is the RGB LED. Turning the cardboard circle to connect the circuit in different spots and produce different colours is really wonderful, and feels like colour mixing with light.
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