Ethernet Overlay Shield for Particle Photon and Electron (BETA)

This Ethernet Overlay Shield brings us one step closer to connecting to the Particle Cloud over Ethernet.  This Beta release consists of working hardware capable of negotiating a IP address with a DHCP server and sending/receiving data over TCP or UDP sockets.  Using this overlay module the Particle module is capable of acting as the Client or Server in TCP/UDP applications via an Ethernet wired connection.  This Ethernet Overlay shield serves as a finalized and validated working hardware implementation layer in preparation for a future firmware release that will, when complete, route all Particle cloud traffic through an Ethernet hardwired interface.  We thought our hard-core coders might want to experiment with Ethernet communications in conjunction with our GitHub library.

This overlay shield was designed to fit into NCD devices with a IoT interface.  This overlay shield fits over the top of Particle Photon or Electron, and extends into NCD device using the outside connection pins.  Please see the Resources tab for close-up photos of how this overlay fits into NCD IoT devices.

This module does not support POE, though this may be possible in future iterations.