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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)

Setting up our hardware

The first thing we should do is get all of our hardware set up so that we can start testing it and creating our program. We will begin by connecting our GPS module to our Pi Zero. Our GPS module is just too big to fit inside of our Pi Zero case lid, so we will be making use of the case lid which has the circular hole for the camera and attaching our GPS module to the lid of the case. With this in mind, cut a long enough length of red, black, yellow, and blue cable to wire your Pi Zero and GPS module together; about 10 cm should do the job.

Strip and tin each end of your four cables so that they are ready to connect to our boards. If you solder your cables to your GPS module first, you can feed them through from the back of the module, and then feed them through the front of the case lid.

The diagram here shows how to wire Pi Zero and the GPS module together...