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Published inJul 2017
Reading LevelIntermediate
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ISBN-139781786468819
Edition1st Edition
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Jon Witts
Jon Witts
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Jon Witts

Jon Witts has been working within the IT industry since 2002 and specifically within Educational IT since 2004. He was introduced to Linux back in 2001 through his collaboration with two German artists who were visiting the arts organisation he was then working with. Having studied Fine Arts and Educational Technology and sought to innovate with open and accessible digital technologies within his creative practice, Jon is happiest when deconstructing technology and finding its limits. Jon has embedded within his school the use of Raspberry Pi computers, as an integral part of the delivery of the school's Computer Science curriculum as well as to run various school clubs and projects. Jon is a Raspberry Pi Certified Educator and also helps to organise and run the Hull Raspberry Jam events. I would like to thank my wife, Sally and our three daughters for putting up with all the cables and compoents around the house, and not least for being so tolerant of the need to dodge the robots racing round the kitchen floor!
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In this project, we have looked at an add-on piece of hardware for the Raspberry Pi and the Scroll pHAT HD; we also saw how we can adapt this to work in our projects. You also learned about sources of information about how we need to wire these add-ons to our Raspberry Pi computers if we are not using the standard hat method; this will come in useful in future projects too!

We then looked at how we can control the Scroll pHAT HD add-on board with some simple Python code. There is plenty of scope here for personalizing this project here, and we now know where to find the online documentation to learn what else this board can do.

Another important step covered was to make Python programs we write start automatically when we power up our Pi Zero. We did this twice just in this project, and this is something we will need to do for most of the remaining projects in the book...

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Wearable-Tech Projects with the Raspberry Pi Zero
Published in: Jul 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781786468819

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Jon Witts

Jon Witts has been working within the IT industry since 2002 and specifically within Educational IT since 2004. He was introduced to Linux back in 2001 through his collaboration with two German artists who were visiting the arts organisation he was then working with. Having studied Fine Arts and Educational Technology and sought to innovate with open and accessible digital technologies within his creative practice, Jon is happiest when deconstructing technology and finding its limits. Jon has embedded within his school the use of Raspberry Pi computers, as an integral part of the delivery of the school's Computer Science curriculum as well as to run various school clubs and projects. Jon is a Raspberry Pi Certified Educator and also helps to organise and run the Hull Raspberry Jam events. I would like to thank my wife, Sally and our three daughters for putting up with all the cables and compoents around the house, and not least for being so tolerant of the need to dodge the robots racing round the kitchen floor!
Read more about Jon Witts