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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

Finalizing our hardware setup

Now that we have a working scrolling message on our Pi Zero, we need to look a little more at the hardware and how we will use this as a badge we can wear on our clothes. The first thing you will probably be thinking is that the two bare circuit boards of the Pi Zero, and the Scroll pHAT HD with all their cables between them do not make the best badge you have ever seen! But fear not, as this section of the project will get everything looking far neater and ready to go as a badge.

Wiring an off switch to our Pi Zero

We are going to solder two more pieces of hardware to our Pi Zero, which we will program to act as an off switch for our Pi Zero. This way, if we are using our Pi Zero out and about...

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