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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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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

Connecting our hardware

Let's begin this project by getting all the hardware set up and connected. Once connect each piece of hardware, we will do a quick test to check whether it is working as expected before moving on.

Let's start with the accelerometer.

Connecting our accelerometer

To communicate with our accelerometer, we need to connect four of the points on the board to four of the GPIO points on Pi Zero. The ADXL345 board uses I2C, so we will be using the same connections as we did with the Scroll pHAT HD, except we will be using a 3.3V power instead of a 5V power this time. This diagram shows us how we need to connect the ADXL345 to our Pi Zero:

As the ADXL345 is such a tiny board, we will be locating it...

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