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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)

Writing our main Python program

As the title of this chapter suggests, we are going to connect our Python program to Twitter so that different Tweets can control the LEDs on our garment. There are a number of steps involved in doing this. We first need to prepare our Twitter account, so we can connect to it; then we need to install a new Python library and configure it with our Twitter access. Finally, we can write our Python program, which will listen to Twitter for our trigger hashtags.

Let's get started straight away!

Preparing your Twitter account

If you do not already have a Twitter account, you are going to want to sign up for one at https://twitter.com/signup. Even if you do already have a Twitter account, you...