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Published inJul 2017
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ISBN-139781786468819
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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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Setting up our hardware

The first thing we should do is get all of our hardware set up so that we can start testing it and creating our program. We will begin by connecting our GPS module to our Pi Zero. Our GPS module is just too big to fit inside of our Pi Zero case lid, so we will be making use of the case lid which has the circular hole for the camera and attaching our GPS module to the lid of the case. With this in mind, cut a long enough length of red, black, yellow, and blue cable to wire your Pi Zero and GPS module together; about 10 cm should do the job.

Strip and tin each end of your four cables so that they are ready to connect to our boards. If you solder your cables to your GPS module first, you can feed them through from the back of the module, and then feed them through the front of the case lid.

The diagram here shows how to wire Pi Zero and the GPS module together...

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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