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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)

Creating Your Own GPS Tracker

In our final project, we will make a portable GPS tracker for bikers or walkers to use while out and about. The GPS tracker will log your GPS coordinates, including elevation and time. We will then also configure the Pi to create a file in the correct format to import into Google Maps or Google Earth.

If you are using the same Pi Zero for this project as you did for the previous project, desolder the six cables that lead from the Pi Zero to the Enviro pHAT and Scroll pHAT HD, but leave your off switch and LED in place, as you may need to detach these from the case first. You should also remove the cables and voltage divider from the lid of your Pi Zero case. To deactivate the software running automatically, connect to your Pi Zero over SSH and issue the following command:

sudo systemctl disable pulseRead.service

Once the command completes, you can...