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

The Arduino IDE

We’ve used the Arduino IDE for a couple of projects, so the interface should be familiar to you. In this section, I want to cover a few basics of programming and the interface.

This section is for beginners so that they feel more comfortable with using Arduino. If you are a seasoned programmer, you may want to jump ahead to hooking up the Gemma M0 board.

Let’s take a brief tour of a few of the terms and what they are:

Functions
Variables
Other tips/syntax

We’ll start by looking at functions, which we covered briefly earlier in this book.

Functions

Functions are important for segmenting code into modular pieces. These perform a defined task and then return to where that code was called from. It’s useful if there are a series of steps that we want to repeat. An example is the digitalWrite() function, which we can use to write a HIGH or LOW value to a digital pin. We can write our own functions, but digitalWrite...