If you are not excited about the possibilities of Particle Core yet, I am fairly sure a connection to IFTTT will get your creative juices flowing. IFTTT stands for If This Then That and is a web mashup service that brings together different online services and lets you connect them in different ways. Most big services with an open API are represented with IFTTT, where IFTTT lets you create what they call recipes. Recipes consist of triggers and actions. A trigger could be any device or service connected to IFTTT and the same goes for actions. For example, every time you upload a new picture to Instagram, you might want to store this photo in your Dropbox. With an IFTTT recipe, this process can be fully automated by connecting your Instagram account to your Dropbox account and letting IFTTT do its magic.

Now the cool thing is that with IFTTT, you can connect the Particle board to the same online services and automate different processes. For example, you can make a wearable...