Custom firmware

The stock firmware provided with Particle devices is good for prototyping but, when building a product for production, the firmware needs to be optimized for a particular function that the Particle device will need to perform over an extended period of time. Firmware that can cater to this need is called custom firmware.

Custom firmware is a modified version of the official firmware. This is usually created to enhance the features the device would otherwise have. You get Particle devices pre-programmed with an official firmware. This can be replaced with builds of the firmware modified to provide other functions and support for other types of programming. Often, when the hardware device has to be deployed for a specific use case ...

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