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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

Adding our LEDs to our fabric

In the same way that we stitched the ground or negative connections of our LEDs together in Chapter 3, Sewable LEDs in Clothing, we are going to use a common ground connection for all of the negative connections of each color LED. Starting with the red LED furthest from the poppers, place your LED on it's marker on the piece of the fabric and stitch it to the fabric using a long length of conductive thread stitching through the negative connection of the LED. Continue with the same piece of conductive thread, and stitch a running stitch along the marker line on your fabric, and then use this to attach the negative connection of the next LED. Continue doing so for all the red LEDs, and finally, run your conductive thread to a female half of a popper, and stitch this to its marker on the fabric. Finish attaching the popper to the fabric by stitching...

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