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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

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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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Writing our program

Now that we have set up, tested, and installed all of the hardware into our cap, we can begin writing the program for it. Connect your Pi Zero to a power source, and then connect to it over SSH.

Understanding our accelerometer readings

Before we jump straight into writing our program, it is probably worth looking at the readings from our accelerometer in a little more detail. If you look closely at the ADXL345 board, you will see that it has two arrows and circle printed on it labelled as x, y, and z respectively. These indicate the axes through which we can measure the movement of the board in relation to the Earth's gravitational pull. This diagram shows a little more clearly how these relate to...

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