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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)

Creating our personal t-shirt design

We are going to use an inkjet iron on transfer paper to get our custom design from our computer onto our t-shirt. I will show the design that I have used, but by all means, use your own design here!

You will need to create your image for your t-shirt design in an image editing package. You could use Photoshop if you have access to a copy, but I am going to use GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) for my design. There really is not much to worry about here apart from a few points to bear in mind:

  • Your final image will need to be reversed. This is especially true if you have any writing in it.
  • Think about how you will need to join your LEDs up. We are going to wire up 12 individual LEDs to our Pi Zero and the connections from each cannot cross at any point.
  • Your design should fit onto a sheet of A3/A4 paper so that it can be printed onto the...