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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

Testing our LEDs

We now need to attach the cables to the correct GPIO points on your Pi Zero. First, you should detach your cables from your LEDs by disconnecting the poppers. Gather all of the cables together and cut them, so they are all about the same length; make sure that you keep your identification markings on each cable! Now, you can cover them in some heat shrink and apply some heat. Each cable now needs to be stripped and tinned, ready to be soldered on to your Pi Zero.

The diagram here shows you which GPIO point to connect which cable to. Feed all the cables through the hole in the bottom of your Pi Zero case, and then carefully solder each one and snip any excess cable using side snips:

Once we have finished soldering all of your cables to your Pi Zero, we can write a short program to test if they all work. Reconnect your cables to your LEDs, ensuring that you press...

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