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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

Troubleshooting

Is your circuit working fine? Does your servo move when the sensor you made is pressed and flexed? If not, you may want to investigate these things first. Don’t forget that there are many great places online for resources to help you on your journey. For more information about the servo library that we used in our code, you can visit https://www.arduino.cc/reference/en/libraries/servo/. For a clear hookup guide, you can visit https://docs.arduino.cc/learn/electronics/servo-motors.

If your servo is not twisting, I would first look at the connections. Even with the colored wires, you may have put it in backward. Check your connections to see that power is going to the power pin on the Gemma M0 board. If the servo is not moving as you are expecting it to, remember that this sensor works best in one direction, or sometimes with pressure. Try flexing it in different directions to see if your flex sensor responds. If you find that your servo doesn’t move...