The Photon is a tiny Wi-Fi development kit for creating connected projects and products for the Internet of Things. It's easy to use, it's powerful, and it's connected to the cloud.
The tools that make up the Photon's ecosystem (and come along with the board) are designed to let you build and create whether you're an embedded engineer, web developer, Arduino enthusiast or IoT entrepreneur. You'll be able to write your firmware in our web or local IDE, deploy it over the air, and build your web and mobile apps with ParticleJS and our Mobile SDK.
The board itself uses a Broadcom wi-fi chip (one that can be found in Nest Protect, LIFX, and Amazon Dash) alongside a powerful STM32 ARM Cortex M3 microcontroller.
The tools that make up the Photon’s ecosystem (and come along with the board) are designed to let you build and create whether you are an embedded engineer, web developer, Arduino enthusiast or IoT entrepreneur. You’ll be able to write your firmware in Particle web or local IDE, deploy it over the air, and build your web and mobile apps with ParticleJS and our Mobile SDK.
The Photon comes in with headers. Prototyping is easy with headers as the Photon plugs directly into standard breadboards and perfboards, and may also be mounted with 0.1” pitch female headers on PCB.

Features

• Particle Photon Wi-Fi module (with Male Headers)
• Broadcom BCM43362 Wi-Fi chip
• 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi
• STM32F205 120Mhz ARM Cortex M3
• 1MB flash, 128KB RAM
• On-board RGB status LED (ext. drive provided)
• 18 Mixed-signal GPIO and advanced peripherals
• Open source design
• Real-time operating system (FreeRTOS)
• Soft AP setup
• FCC, CE and IC certified

Datasheet

• Photon Datasheet
• Getting Started