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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

Delving into Best Practices and the Future of Wearable Technology

This chapter will provide information on the steps to take to help find solutions for common errors or issues that can happen when we prototype. We will look at a few handy tips to help us with our wearable journey, as well as understand how to set up our circuits so that they last. We will also have a look at batteries and power solutions.

We will look at troubleshooting and some of the common ways you can take a step-by-step approach to finding the problem. We will finish up with a look at the future and what the world of wearables may hold! What are scientists, technologists, engineers, and designers exploring in these intersections? For example, designers and engineers are creating medical devices worn on the body and collecting essential information for healthcare. We look toward the possible future directions for wearables, on-body systems, and creative circuits. We discuss “What does the future hold...