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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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Jon Witts Jon Witts
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

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

Writing our Python program

To start with, we will write a simple, short piece of Python just to check that all ten of our LEDs are working, and we know which GPIO pin controls which pair of LEDs. Power on your Pi Zero and connect to it via SSH.

Testing our LEDs

To check that our LEDs are all correctly wired up and that we can control them using Python, we will write this short program to test them.

First, move into our project directory by typing this:

      cd ~/WearableTech/

Now, make a new directory for this chapter by typing this:

mkdir Chapter3

Now, move into our new directory:

cd Chapter3

Next, we create our test program by typing this:

nano testLED.py

Then, we enter the following code into Nano:

#!/usr/bin/python3...
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