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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 chapter, you learned about the complexities of creating an accurate pedometer by taking a look at some of the maths involved in this process too. We also saw how to chain multiple I2C devices together on our Pi Zero. To be able to calibrate our pedometer program, you had to learn how to write data to a CSV file using Python, and then we briefly looked at how we can copy those files from our Pi Zero to our main computer using the SCP protocol.

Our final program combined the use of the Scroll pHAT HD from the Chapter 2, Scrolling LED Badge, with the reading of the accelerometer data that we first looked at in the Chapter 4, A Motion-Reactive LED Cap.

In our next chapter, we are going to look at how we can use our Pi Zero to create a simple heart rate monitor.