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The Ultimate Guide to Informed Wearable Technology

By : Christine Farion
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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

Review questions and exercises

Answer the following questions and complete the following exercises to test your knowledge of this chapter:

  1. How do we know our flex sensor is working?
  2. What happens if you name my variable something that is not allowed?
  3. Why do we use Serial Monitor?
  4. Why did we need to choose a PWM pin for the LED?
  5. Can you complete the circuits created in this chapter? Add them to a part of the body, sew them into a design, or plan where you may want to incorporate them.
  6. Spend some time planning a flex sensor for a different part of the body. What do you need to consider if you are planning for a finger? For the knee? How will these sensors differ? Be aware of the size differences and the pressure or flex on different parts of the body. The knee will need to track a wider movement, but the finger will involve smaller, more precise movements.