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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)

The bill of parts

We will make use of the following things in this project:

  • A Pi Zero W
  • An official Pi Zero case (with the camera lid)
  • A portable USB battery pack for your Pi Zero
  • An Adafruit ADXL345 Triple Axis Accelerometer
  • A Pimoroni Scroll pHAT HD
  • Stranded core cable – red, black, yellow, and blue
  • Cable heat shrink
  • Soldering iron and solders
  • A hot glue gun