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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

Scrolling LED Badge

In our first full project, we are going to make ourselves a badge that connects back to our Pi Zero. The badge itself will be made from a board, which contains a total of 119 individually addressable LEDs! The board is made by Pimoroni in the UK and is called a Scroll pHAT HD. The board comes with a female header, which normally you would solder onto the board to allow it to sit directly on top of your Pi Zero. However, we will adapt the board slightly so that we can conceal our Pi Zero and battery away out of sight and attach the board to an item of clothing as a badge.

We will look into the Python library, which Pimoroni supplies with the Scroll pHAT HD and try out a couple of different things that we can do with it.

We will finish our project off by installing a power-off switch to our Pi Zero, adding it into the official Pi Zero case and powering the whole...

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