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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)

What we will cover

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • What parts we will need to complete this project
  • How to connect up the Scroll pHAT HD to our Pi Zero
  • Installing the software to control our Scroll pHAT HD and writing our custom Python program for it
  • Creating an off switch and an LED indicator for our Pi Zero, including writing the Python program for it
  • Installing all of our electronics into our case and setting the Scroll pHAT HD up, so we can wear it as a badge

First off, let's look at what we will need for this project.