Preface
What are informed wearables and why should you care about them? Throughout this book, you’ll discover how wearables are changing lives. There are many fun, entertaining, and charming aspects to wearable devices. However, they can also be used in a way that can improve quality of life. This is the concept behind informed wearable technology. We will use Design Innovation techniques to learn how to discover the real needs of people. We will also learn how we can truly have an effect on and improve people’s lives.
Wearable circuits add interaction and purpose to clothing and items. Products are emerging from research fields into the industry and consumer realms. In recent years, e-textile components, compatible with Arduino, have appeared. These can be used to create socially driven on-body devices. Using Arduino and ESP32-based boards (and more), we can build wearables with purpose.
Reading this book will enable you to understand and implement creative, sewable circuits in your wearable tech projects. These soft circuits can be built for medical, social, safety, entertainment, and sporting fields, to name a few. Your skills will be enhanced through physical computing, bringing your ideas to life.
The Ultimate Guide to Informed Wearable Technology is a comprehensive introduction for those who are beginners to e-textiles and the Arduino platform that will have you up to speed and wearing circuits in no time. You will learn skills to bring your circuits to life, completing projects that you can use. By the end of the book, you will have the knowledge to start your own projects from scratch and the confidence to build and wear them. Let’s explore and create a future of informed wearable tech!
Disclaimer
All the projects developed in this book are for educational and prototyping purposes only. We advise all activities to be done with precaution and appropriate safety measures where needed. Soldering, sewing, using conductive textiles, and connecting electronics require attention and care, therefore, we strongly advise following the instructions given in the book with precaution or under guidance, if needed. The author or Packt cannot be held responsible for any damages in the form of physical/monetary loss, or any kind of loss occurred as a result of building projects that are presented in this book