I've done a lot of projects over the holidays. This is a quick collection of notes to remind myself later.

I took the insides out of an old IKEA Spøka nightlight and squeezed in a Particle Photon, a battery shield and a battery then soldered the nightlight's on/off switch onto some jumper cables and wired that in. I now have an internet-connected button that looks cute.

Still no idea what to do with it but it’s fun.

Here's the code that's running on the Photon:

int led = D7; // Built-in LED
int pushButton = D6; // Old Spøka momentary switch


bool wasUp = true;

void setup() 
{
  pinMode(led, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(pushButton, INPUT_PULLUP); 
}

void loop() 
{
  int pushButtonState; 

pushButtonState = digitalRead(pushButton);

if(pushButtonState == LOW)
  { // If we push down on the push button
    digitalWrite(led, HIGH);  // Turn ON the LED
    if(wasUp) {
        Particle.publish("Spooky pressed");
        wasUp = false;
    }
  }
  else
  {
    digitalWrite(led, LOW);   // Turn OFF the LED 
    wasUp = true;
  }

}

When you press the button, you get a message published to the Particle Cloud.