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Wearable-Tech Projects with the Raspberry Pi Zero

By : Jon Witts
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Wearable-Tech Projects with the Raspberry Pi Zero

By: Jon Witts

Overview of this book

With Wearable-Tech Projects with the Raspberry Pi Zero, you will begin with learning how to install the required software for your upcoming projects. You will also learn how to control electronic devices with the GPIOZero Python library. Next, you will be creating some stylish wearable-tech projects such as a motion-reactive LED cap and a Tweet-activated LED T-shirt. Toward the end of the book, you will be creating some useful health and fitness wearable-tech projects; these will help you monitor your heart rate, track your movements with GPS, and count your footsteps with your own pedometer. By the end of the book, you will have created a range of wearable-tech projects and learned enough about your Raspberry Pi Zero that you should be able to adapt these projects further or come up with your own creations!
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Summary

In this project, we have looked at an add-on piece of hardware for the Raspberry Pi and the Scroll pHAT HD; we also saw how we can adapt this to work in our projects. You also learned about sources of information about how we need to wire these add-ons to our Raspberry Pi computers if we are not using the standard hat method; this will come in useful in future projects too!

We then looked at how we can control the Scroll pHAT HD add-on board with some simple Python code. There is plenty of scope here for personalizing this project here, and we now know where to find the online documentation to learn what else this board can do.

Another important step covered was to make Python programs we write start automatically when we power up our Pi Zero. We did this twice just in this project, and this is something we will need to do for most of the remaining projects in the book...