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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

Configuring our Pi Zero to connect to the hardware

You may have noticed from the labelling on the GPS module and from the pins that we connected the module to our Pi Zero on that we are using a serial device. The tell-tale sign for this was the TX and RX labelled pins on the GPS module board. You may also have noticed that we crossed these connections over to our Pi Zero; in that, we connected the TX from the GPS module to the RX on the Pi Zero and vice versa.

To make use of the Pi Zero's hardware serial pins, we need to make a number of changes to our software. The changes that are needed will depend upon whether you are using Pi Zero or Pi Zero W. The reason for the differences between the two editions of Pi Zero are because the Bluetooth added to Pi Zero W and Pi 3 boards make use of the serial port, so we need to take an extra step to stabilize our serial communications...

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