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

LilyPad e-textiles

The LilyPad boards were the most widely known and were developed for creating wearable circuits. However, as we’ll learn, there are a variety of microcontroller boards to suit our projects. Many are based on the Arduino board with ATMEL chips. Therefore, we can use the Arduino integrated development environment (IDE) to program them. Learning about the different types of e-textile kits will help you with planning and making future wearable circuits.

A microcontroller is a small single-purpose computer with an integrated circuit (IC) that’s made up of a processor, memory, and connections for inputs and outputs. It will store and run a program that we upload to it. Most of the boards have a reset button and a way to connect power to it.

A key feature of e-textile toolkits is that they all can be integrated into our wearable designs easier than traditional microcontroller boards.

The LilyPad Arduino was one of the first commercially available...