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Wearable-Tech Projects with the Raspberry Pi Zero

You're reading from   Wearable-Tech Projects with the Raspberry Pi Zero Create imaginative, real-world wearable tech projects with the Rapsberry Pi Zero

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468819
Length 184 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. About the Raspberry Pi FREE CHAPTER 2. Scrolling LED Badge 3. Sewable LEDs in Clothing 4. A Motion-Reactive LED Cap 5. A Tweet-Activated LED T-Shirt 6. An LED Laptop Bag 7. Creating Your Own Pedometer 8. Creating Your Own Heart Rate Monitor 9. Creating Your Own GPS Tracker

Creating our personal t-shirt design

We are going to use an inkjet iron on transfer paper to get our custom design from our computer onto our t-shirt. I will show the design that I have used, but by all means, use your own design here!

You will need to create your image for your t-shirt design in an image editing package. You could use Photoshop if you have access to a copy, but I am going to use GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) for my design. There really is not much to worry about here apart from a few points to bear in mind:

  • Your final image will need to be reversed. This is especially true if you have any writing in it.
  • Think about how you will need to join your LEDs up. We are going to wire up 12 individual LEDs to our Pi Zero and the connections from each cannot cross at any point.
  • Your design should fit onto a sheet of A3/A4 paper so that it can be printed onto the...
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