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Wearable-Tech Projects with the Raspberry Pi Zero

By : Jon Witts
Book Image

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)

Testing our GPS tracker

So, with your code all confirmed as working, it is time to pin your tracker to your top (try to make sure the ceramic aerial has a clear view of the sky), and go for a walk or ride. You should quite quickly see the FIX LED get a connection. Once you do see the FIX indication you know that your tracker is logging away for you.

When you finish the route you want to log, just press and hold your power-off button to switch everything off. When you return home you can copy the KML files off your Pi Zero as before and upload them into Google Maps or Google Earth to share your routes!

Here is an example of a route tracked with my Pi Zero GPS tracker seen in Google Earth: