You're reading from The Ultimate Guide to Informed Wearable Technology

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Published in Oct 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803230597

Pages 526 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Wearable Tech

Author (1):

Christine Farion

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

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

Using an Application Programming Interface (API) for live data

An API allows two computers to talk to each other. When you check the weather or access services, you’re using an API. In a sense, it’s a messenger; it sends a message to a service, such as the weather service, saying that you are requesting data and what the data that you’re requesting is, and then it is returned to you. The API key is the code that gets sent to identify who you are (whether a user or a developer) and it sends the requested information to you if the key is correct. This often is based on the type of account you hold with the API provider.

We’ll be setting up a free account to access an API for weather data. This next activity will take us through the process step by step.