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Wearable-Tech Projects with the Raspberry Pi Zero

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468819
Pages 184 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Jon Witts Jon Witts
Profile icon Jon Witts

Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface 1. About the Raspberry Pi 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 the garment modifications

The last thing we have to do now is to add our LEDs into our printed t-shirt design. Turn your printed t-shirt inside out, and then take your piece of fabric with your LEDs stitched into it and place it on top of the design of the t-shirt with the LEDs facing the t-shirt. Take some time to ensure that the two designs line up nicely and pin it in place. I then folded the fabric back over the back of the LED stitching so that none of the conductive thread would come into contact with the wearer's skin. With everything pinned in place, sew three sides of the design onto the t-shirt. I used a sewing machine to do this, but you could do it by hand if you do not have access to a sewing machine. Be sure to leave the side of the design closest to where your cables attach to the poppers open so that you can attach and detach the Pi Zero from your...

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