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Figure 8.9 IFTTT trigger e-mail.

You can, of course, trigger all sorts of actions from the Photon board, and you can
easily go back and change the settings of a recipe instead of creating a new one.

Create a Twitter Alert Using Grove Modules

Now that we have looked at using our Photon to trigger an event using IFTTT, we are
going to look at how we can use a Web service such as Twitter to trigger something to
happen using the Photon board. For this experiment we are going to be using the

SeeedStudio starter kit for the Photon. Grove is a modular, ready-to-use set of tool blocks,
as shown in Figure 8.10.

Figure 8.10 Grove Photon kit.