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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)

A Tweet-Activated LED T-Shirt

In this project, we will use the skills that we learned in Chapter 3, Sewable LEDs in Clothing, and take them a little bit further. We are going to create our own personally designed t-shirt using sewable LEDs again but by combining them into our own personal design. We will use a slightly different technique so that the conductive thread is completely hidden, and finally, we will write a Python program that listens to Twitter-awaiting commands to activate our t-shirt!

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 the Pi Zero to Blinkt; but leave your off-switch and LED in place, as 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...