Spoil Your Valentine with Particle + Spoil + AWS

Instead of giving a box of chocolates this Valentines Day, keep the chocolates. Let's give a smart self-gifting box instead!

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Spoil Your Valentine with Particle + Spoil + AWS

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Particle Electron

Adafruit Rugged Metal Pushbutton with Red LED Ring

Valentines Chocolate Box

Software apps and online services

Particle IDE

Amazon Web Services AWS SNS

Amazon Web Services AWS Lambda

Spoil's gifting service

SMTP Email Service

I already had a hosting plan for a website, so I used the free SMTP service that came with it, check your site hosting provider for one, or try using the Gmail support in nodemailer!

Hand tools and fabrication machines

Step Drill Bit

Story

We built a chocolate heart that gives endless gifts instead of only candy!

The Box

The Gifts

incredible macaroons delivered by Spoil.co

The Build

A Particle Electron sends an order to Spoil.co on your behalf when the button is pressed! We use Amazon SNS, and Lambda to catch our events and send the email.

Check out the full Valentines Heart build guide here!

The Chocolate I ate!

Happy Valentines!

Credits

David Middlecamp

1 project • 81 followers

I help people build amazing things, I ship solutions to hard problems.

Thanks to Melissa E.

Spoil Your Valentine with Particle + Spoil + AWS