The Ultimate Guide to Informed Wearable Technology: A hands-on approach for creating wearables from prototype to purpose (Paperback)

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Master wearable technology with this book including colored images and over 50 activities using Arduino and ESP32 build useful stylish and smart wearable devices and create interactive circuits that react to us and our environment Key Features: – Learn wearable technology and build electronic circuits with fun activities using Arduino systems – Get an in-depth understanding of e-textiles and ESP32 microcontrollers to create interactive wearables – Apply a design innovation approach and best practices to address real-world issues Book Description: Wearable circuits add interaction and purpose to clothing and other wearable devices that are currently widely used in medical social safety entertainment and sports fields. To develop useful and impressive prototypes and wearables you ll need to be skilled in designing electronic circuits and working with wearable technologies. This book takes you on an interesting journey through wearable technology starting from electronic circuits materials and e-textile toolkits to using Arduino which includes a variety of sensors outputs actuators and microcontrollers such as Gemma M0 and ESP32. As you progress you ll be carefully guided through creating an advanced IoT project. You ll learn by doing and create wearables with the help of practical examples and exercises. Later chapters will show you how to develop a hyper-body wearable and solder and sew circuits. Finally you ll discover how to build a culture-driven wearable to track data and provide feedback using a Design Innovation approach. After reading this book you ll be able to design interactive prototypes and sew solder and program your own Arduino-based wearable devices with a purpose. What You Will Learn: – Construct sewable electronic circuits with conductive thread and materials – Discover the features of LilyPad Gemma Circuit Playground and other boards – Use various components for listening moving sensing actions and visualizing outputs – Control ESP32 development boards for IoT exploration – Understand why and how to prototype to create interactive wearables – Get skilled in sewing and soldering sensors to Arduino-based circuits – Design and build a hyper-body wearable that senses and reacts – Master a Design Innovation approach for creating wearables with a purpose Who this book is for: This book is for electronics engineers embedded system engineers and designers and R&D engineers who are beginners in the wearable technology domain as well as makers and hobbyists who have an interest in creative computing. It will also be useful for teachers students and researchers who are learning interaction design physical computing technology fashion or arts. Having a basic understanding of Arduino-based systems will help in easily comprehending the contents of the book. Table of Contents – Introduction to the World of Wearables – Unde