You're reading from The Ultimate Guide to Informed Wearable Technology A hands-on approach for creating wearables from prototype to purpose using Arduino systems

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803230597

Length 526 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Arduino

Concepts

Wearable Tech

Author (1):

Christine Farion

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Getting Started with Wearable Technology and Simple Circuits

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to the World of Wearables FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Understanding and Building Electronic Sewable Circuits

4. Chapter 3: Exploring e-textile Toolkits: LilyPad, Flora, Circuit Playground, and More

5. Chapter 4: Implementing Arduino Code Using Gemma M0 and Circuit Playground

6. Part 2:Creating Sewable Circuits That Sense and React Using Arduino and ESP32

7. Chapter 5: Working with Sensors: All About Inputs!

8. Chapter 6: Exploring Reactions Through Outputs

9. Chapter 7: Moving Forward with Circuit Design Using ESP32

10. Part 3:Learning to Prototype, Build, and Wear a Hyper-Body System

11. Chapter 8: Learning How to Prototype and Make Electronics Wearable

12. Chapter 9: Designing and Prototyping Your Own Hyper-Body System

13. Chapter 10: Soldering and Sewing to Complete Your Project

14. Part 4:Getting the Taste of Designing Your Own Culture-Driven Wearable and Beyond

15. Chapter 11: Innovating, with a Human-Centered Design Process

16. Chapter 12: Designing for Forgetfulness: A Case Study of Message Bag

17. Chapter 13: Implementing the Best Solutions for Creating Your Own Wearable

18. Chapter 14: Delving into Best Practices and the Future of Wearable Technology

19. Index

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Appendix: Answers and Additional Information

Using libraries

We can connect sensors to our Arduino-based microcontroller boards using the I2C and SPI protocols. We can also make use of the sensors and components quicker and easier using a library. Let’s take a closer look at these areas now. We’ll start with libraries.

How do we use a library?

You will use the Library Manager a lot when you’re making your wearables. Libraries provide your sketches with extra functionality. What are libraries? The Arduino website says, “Libraries are a collection of code that makes it easy for you to connect to a sensor, display, module, etc. There are hundreds of additional libraries available on the Internet for download.”

They can be written by anyone, and you can create your own and share it. When I last checked, there were over 4,000 libraries! Libraries are used in many of the sketches we write in the Arduino IDE. We can easily install them and, typically, they include sample code to help us get...