As I mentioned before, we can't use the Arduino IDE to program the Particle Core board since the Arduino IDE has no support for this type of board at the time I am writing this book. But using the Arduino IDE to program the Particle Core is to miss of the point of using them a bit. Since these boards implement Wi-Fi technology, we can program them wirelessly, which might be a huge benefit in some cases and especially when it comes to wearable projects. Debugging a wearable project is a pain sometimes if you constantly have to be connected to a computer in order to make changes to the code. So wireless programming alone is a reason for considering the Particle Core for a wearable project. Then we also have a connection to the Internet, which makes for some really interesting projects.

In order to make these projects, we need to be able to program the Particle Core, and Particle, the company behind the Particle Core, has developed a web-based IDE that can be...