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Wearable-Tech Projects with the Raspberry Pi Zero

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Published in Jul 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786468819

Pages 184 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Jon Witts

Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface

1. About the Raspberry Pi

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 electrical circuit

Before we go any further with this project, we need to talk a little bit about power for our DotStar LED strip. DotStar LEDs have a very specific power requirement; if there is not enough power, you will not be able to see them clearly; and if there's too much power, you risk damaging your LEDs. To complicate matters further, we need our power source to be portable in this project, so we will need to make use of batteries of one kind or another. Due to the exacting power requirements of the DotStar LEDs, we will also need to use some electronics to allow our Pi Zero to control DotStar LEDs.

DotStar LEDs are rated as 5V devices. Including a +- 10% tolerance gives us a safe working voltage range of 4.5V to 5.5V to power our DotStar LEDs. Now, you may ask why we don't just use the 5V line from the Pi Zero to power the LED strip? The reason...

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Authors (1)

Jon Witts

Jon Witts has been working within the IT industry since 2002 and specifically within Educational IT since 2004. He was introduced to Linux back in 2001 through his collaboration with two German artists who were visiting the arts organisation he was then working with. Having studied Fine Arts and Educational Technology and sought to innovate with open and accessible digital technologies within his creative practice, Jon is happiest when deconstructing technology and finding its limits. Jon has embedded within his school the use of Raspberry Pi computers, as an integral part of the delivery of the school's Computer Science curriculum as well as to run various school clubs and projects. Jon is a Raspberry Pi Certified Educator and also helps to organise and run the Hull Raspberry Jam events. I would like to thank my wife, Sally and our three daughters for putting up with all the cables and compoents around the house, and not least for being so tolerant of the need to dodge the robots racing round the kitchen floor!

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