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Wearable-Tech Projects with the Raspberry Pi Zero

Wearable-Tech Projects with the Raspberry Pi Zero

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

Wearable-Tech Projects with the Raspberry Pi Zero

4.5 (2)
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!
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Scrolling LED Badge

In our first full project, we are going to make ourselves a badge that connects back to our Pi Zero. The badge itself will be made from a board, which contains a total of 119 individually addressable LEDs! The board is made by Pimoroni in the UK and is called a Scroll pHAT HD. The board comes with a female header, which normally you would solder onto the board to allow it to sit directly on top of your Pi Zero. However, we will adapt the board slightly so that we can conceal our Pi Zero and battery away out of sight and attach the board to an item of clothing as a badge.

We will look into the Python library, which Pimoroni supplies with the Scroll pHAT HD and try out a couple of different things that we can do with it.

We will finish our project off by installing a power-off switch to our Pi Zero, adding it into the official Pi Zero case and powering the whole...

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