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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

Sewable LEDs in Clothing

In this project, we will use sewable LEDs and conductive threads to transform the item of clothing into a sparkling LED piece of wearable tech, controlled with our Pi Zero hidden in the clothing. We will incorporate Pi Zero and a battery into a hidden pocket in the garment and connect our sewable LEDs to the Pi's GPIO pins so that we can write Python code to control the order and timings of the LEDs.

If you are using the same Pi Zero for this project as you did for the previous project, desolder the four cables, which lead from Pi Zero to the Scroll pHAT HD, but leave your off switch and LED in place; you may need to detach these from the case first. To deactivate the software running automatically, connect to your Pi Zero over SSH and issue the following command:

sudo systemctl disable scrollBadge.service

Once this command completes, you can shutdown...

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