ThingSpeak Resources

ThingSpeak is an IoT analytics platform service that allows you to aggregate, visualize, and analyze live data streams in the cloud. You can send data to ThingSpeak™ from your devices, create instant visualizations of live data, and send alerts using web services like Twitter^® and Twilio^®. With MATLAB^® analytics inside ThingSpeak, you can write and execute MATLAB code to perform preprocessing, visualizations, and analyses. ThingSpeak enables engineers and scientists to prototype and build IoT systems without setting up servers or developing web software.

ThingSpeak Tutorials

• Send Data to ThingSpeak with Arduino
• Send Data to ThingSpeak using Particle Webhooks
• Send Messages From Devices to Slack Using ThingSpeak

ThingSpeak Projects

Official Arduino Library for CheerLights

December 13, 2024

Moving away from X/Twitter: CheerLights is now a Discord IoT project

October 25, 2023

CheerLights for Halloween

October 24, 2023

ChatGPT Code Interpreter for ThingSpeak IoT Data Analysis

July 7, 2023

Top 10 IoT Project Ideas For ThingSpeak

February 21, 2023

Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s some IoT.

February 14, 2023

ThingSpeak Blog Posts

• Official Arduino Library for CheerLights
• Updating WLED Binary on ESP32-C3 Devices
• World's First GPT for IoT? Learn IoT From the CheerLights Expert GPT powered by ChatGPT.
• Moving away from X/Twitter: CheerLights is now a Discord IoT project
• CheerLights for Halloween
• Top 10 IoT Project Ideas For ThingSpeak
• IoT On Air Light Project Featured on Hackaday Blog!
• On Air Light 2023: Easy DIY Status Light for Microsoft Teams and Zoom
• Send IoT Data to ThingSpeak using AT Commands (Arduino and SIM800L Tutorial)
• #FearLights: CheerLights for Halloween
• The IoT Debugger App for ThingSpeak Now Includes a CheerLights Example
• You Can See the Earth Move Thanks to a Seismograph Board for the Raspberry Pi
• Early Experimentation: Interactive Twitch Live Streams, AI Produced Lo-Fi Music, and IoT
• Updates to the CheerLights IoT Project: Node-RED, JavaScript, Twitch, and Discord
• New CheerLights Installation at MathWorks Lakeside Campus
• Worldwide Network of Lights: CheerLights Turns 10
• My Toaster is Now on TikTok
• The Data Science (and Some IoT) Behind Great BBQ
• Predictive Maintenance: Going Next Level With the Ninja Foodi Air Fryer
• The Internet of Nouns: How Twitter and Foursquare Changed My Life
• 'On Air' Light for Microsoft Teams and Zoom Meetings
• (My) History of the Internet of Things
• Control IFTTT Webhooks with MATLAB
• ThingSpeak at the Boston TechJam
• Getting Ready for the Bay Area Maker Faire!
• Use AWS DeepLens to Determine If Hotdog or Not Hotdog
• How to Reset the Arduino MKR1000
• CheerLights Robot for Your Nursery
• Measure Wi-Fi Signal Levels with the ESP8266 and ThingSpeak
• Learn How to Use MQTT.fx with ThingSpeak
• Are Open Source IoT Platforms Ready for Primetime?
• Twilio Rickrolls You Using Their API
• Open Source IoT Debug Tool for ThingSpeak and Particle
• ThingSpeak + Particle Photon using Webhooks
• Particle Electron and Webhooks to ThingSpeak!
• Particle Electron Kickstarter Kit Just Arrived
• Seeeduino Cloud Starter Kit for AWS IoT
• IoT Toaster - MyToaster on Twitter Video
• CheerLights with LIFX Wi-Fi Light Bulbs
• Send Your Windows Server’s Disk Free Space to ThingSpeak Using PowerShell
• Internet of Things Pittsburgh Kicks Off on the Global Internet of Things Day April 9th
• CheerLights is Back for the Holidays
• Un grille-pain high tech qui envoie des tweets
• Boston.com: This high-tech toaster can Tweet
• MyToaster: 13 Coolest Inanimate Objects You Can Follow on Twitter
• Las 10 cuentas de Twitter más divertidas y absurdas
• CheerLights: my lights are linked to everyone else's
• Internet of Things DCWEEK Workshop during DCWEEK
• Keynote Speech at Web of Things 2011
• ThingSpeak: Building My Own Twitter (for Things)
• Web of Things Talk at Ignite Pittsburgh
• Toaster + Twitter = Internet of Things
• Best Invention Since Sliced Bread
• Social Networking for My Toaster