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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)

Sewable LEDs in Clothing

In this project, we will use sewable LEDs and conductive threads to transform the item of clothing into a sparkling LED piece of wearable tech, controlled with our Pi Zero hidden in the clothing. We will incorporate Pi Zero and a battery into a hidden pocket in the garment and connect our sewable LEDs to the Pi's GPIO pins so that we can write Python code to control the order and timings of the LEDs.

If you are using the same Pi Zero for this project as you did for the previous project, desolder the four cables, which lead from Pi Zero to the Scroll pHAT HD, but leave your off switch and LED in place; you may need to detach these from the case first. To deactivate the software running automatically, connect to your Pi Zero over SSH and issue the following command:

sudo systemctl disable scrollBadge.service

Once this command completes, you can shutdown...