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Wearable-Tech Projects with the Raspberry Pi Zero

By : Jon Witts
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Wearable-Tech Projects with the Raspberry Pi Zero

By: Jon Witts

Overview of this book

With Wearable-Tech Projects with the Raspberry Pi Zero, you will begin with learning how to install the required software for your upcoming projects. You will also learn how to control electronic devices with the GPIOZero Python library. Next, you will be creating some stylish wearable-tech projects such as a motion-reactive LED cap and a Tweet-activated LED T-shirt. Toward the end of the book, you will be creating some useful health and fitness wearable-tech projects; these will help you monitor your heart rate, track your movements with GPS, and count your footsteps with your own pedometer. By the end of the book, you will have created a range of wearable-tech projects and learned enough about your Raspberry Pi Zero that you should be able to adapt these projects further or come up with your own creations!
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we have developed our skills of using sewable LEDs further, and also incorporated them with a printed design on our garment. You have also learned how to connect to Twitter using Python and make our programs react to different phrases or hashtags found on Twitter. Finally, you learned how to connect our Pi Zero to different Wi-Fi networks using the priority keyword in our wpa_supplicant file. This final step allows us to now take our wearable projects out and about with us when they need an Internet connection.

In our next project, we will be making a LED laptop bag. We will make use of a RGB addressable LED strip to create a matrix of programmable LEDs across the front of our bag. We will then create the necessary electronic circuits to control these with our Pi Zero and also write our Python program to control our LED bag design.

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