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The Ultimate Guide to Informed Wearable Technology

By : Christine Farion
Book Image

The Ultimate Guide to Informed Wearable Technology

By: Christine Farion

Overview of this book

Wearable circuits add interaction and purpose to clothing and other wearable devices that are currently widely used in medical, social, safety, entertainment, and sports fields. To develop useful and impressive prototypes and wearables, you’ll need to be skilled in designing electronic circuits and working with wearable technologies. This book takes you on an interesting journey through wearable technology, starting from electronic circuits, materials, and e-textile toolkits to using Arduino, which includes a variety of sensors, outputs, actuators, and microcontrollers such as Gemma M0 and ESP32. As you progress, you’ll be carefully guided through creating an advanced IoT project. You’ll learn by doing and create wearables with the help of practical examples and exercises. Later chapters will show you how to develop a hyper-body wearable and solder and sew circuits. Finally, you’ll discover how to build a culture-driven wearable to track data and provide feedback using a Design Innovation approach. After reading this book, you’ll be able to design interactive prototypes and sew, solder, and program your own Arduino-based wearable devices with a purpose.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1:Getting Started with Wearable Technology and Simple Circuits
6
Part 2:Creating Sewable Circuits That Sense and React Using Arduino and ESP32
10
Part 3:Learning to Prototype, Build, and Wear a Hyper-Body System
14
Part 4:Getting the Taste of Designing Your Own Culture-Driven Wearable and Beyond

Building up your prototype – function by function

It’s finally time to get building. With our thoughts on planning done, there’s just a few reminders of some of the techniques we’ve been learning along the way.

Here are some top tips for a successful project:

  • Try to build your projects in sections. This also gives you a sense of accomplishment when something works. I’ve had the experience of trying to do too much at once and then there seems to be an insurmountable number of errors to fix.
  • Prototype small and in a non-permanent way. All I mean by this is when you start the circuit, try to use croc clips or breadboards, and hook up wires so that you can easily fix, move, repair, and try things out.
  • Don’t forget to check your board and port every time you disconnect and connect the board to your computer and Arduino.
  • It’s a good idea to prototype and test the connections as you finish them. This might be checking...