Anyone go for the Particle Boron kickstarter and get one? Anyone try it yet?

Mine sat around while trying to think of a good use for my three months of free 
data. I had the parts to replicate the Particle Photon Asset Tracker (GPS 
module plus LIS3DH accelerometer), so went with this project: 
https://www.hackster.io/YanSarazin/particle-asset-tracker-with-mysignal-io-using-mqtt-1a853e

It is working and publishing to the signal mqtt mapping site every hour. Eh 
kinda cool. They have a geofencing feature which can alert you if your thing 
moves outside a given area.

The web editor is frustrating. I wanted to use the example library for the 
asset tracker without the LIS3DH support, but there isn't a simple way to make 
your own copy of the libraries. I guess you have to fork it on github and 
somehow make the IDE aware of it. The library seemed to have a time-out for not 
finding the LIS3DH on the I2C bus, but that had issues which seemed to prevent 
pushing new code to it until I wiped it with new firmware and ran the code with 
the actual LIS3DH attached. It should not have gone 'unpingable' but mine did 
until I re-flashed it. Not great for OTA updates.

Not a very in-depth look, but I've been pretty busy with family and haven't 
done much embedded stuff.

Alex

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