Some of you may have suffered through enough physics in college to remember something called the “Electron in a box” model. Well, today I’m going to show you an Electron coming out of a box.

A while back I wrote up a small project with the Particle.io Photon, a Wifi-enabled prototyping board that can be programmed using Arduino-like code. I got a surprise in the mail this week:  an intriguing successor to the Photon, the also unsearchably named “Electron”.