Photon-NOT-So-Fun...

Unfortunately, my original project idea did not quite work out. This was due to major connectivity issues between my computer and the Photon. When the connection was successful, I was able to create an If-This-Then-That applet to send a slack notification to my own personal Slack channel each time PIR motion sensor detected activity in our student lounge:

However, after a certain point, my Photon just stopped connecting to any WiFi for any period longer than 1 minute. Despite all of my efforts to troubleshoot with the help of the Particle documentation as well as the Particle community website, this, of course, was not long enough for me to fully get the Photon to do what I wanted it to do.