The Ultimate Guide to Informed Wearable Technology: A hands-on approach for creating wearables from prototype to purpose using Arduino systems

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.

這本書將帶領您掌握可穿戴科技，其中包含彩色圖片和超過50個使用Arduino和ESP32的活動，建立有用、時尚和智能的可穿戴裝置，並創建對我們和環境做出反應的互動電路。

主要特點：
- 學習可穿戴科技，並使用Arduino系統進行有趣的活動來建立電子電路
- 深入了解電子紡織品和ESP32微控制器，以創建互動式可穿戴裝置
- 應用設計創新方法和最佳實踐來解決現實問題

書籍描述：
可穿戴電路為目前廣泛應用於醫療、社交、安全、娛樂和運動領域的服裝和其他可穿戴裝置增添了互動和功能。要開發有用且令人印象深刻的原型和可穿戴裝置，您需要具備設計電子電路和使用可穿戴技術的技能。

本書將帶您踏上一段有趣的可穿戴科技之旅，從電子電路、材料和電子紡織工具包開始，到使用包括各種傳感器、輸出、致動器和微控制器（如Gemma M0和ESP32）的Arduino。隨著進展，您將通過實際示例和練習的幫助，謹慎地引導您創建一個先進的物聯網項目。您將通過實際操作學習並創建可穿戴裝置。後面的章節將向您展示如何開發一個超體可穿戴裝置，以及焊接和縫製電路。最後，您將發現如何使用設計創新方法來建立一個以文化為驅動的可穿戴裝置，以追踪數據並提供反饋。

閱讀完本書後，您將能夠設計互動原型，並能夠縫製、焊接和編程自己基於Arduino的可穿戴裝置，並賦予其功能。

學到的內容：
- 使用導電線和材料構建可縫製的電子電路
- 探索LilyPad、Gemma、Circuit Playground和其他開發板的功能
- 使用各種組件進行聆聽、移動、感應動作和可視化輸出
- 控制ESP32開發板進行物聯網探索
- 瞭解原型設計的原因和方法，以創建互動式可穿戴裝置
- 掌握將傳感器縫製和焊接到基於Arduino的電路中的技巧
- 設計並建立一個能感應和反應的超體可穿戴裝置
- 掌握設計創新方法，以創建具有功能的可穿戴裝置

適合閱讀對象：
本書適合電子工程師、嵌入式系統工程師和設計師，以及初學者在可穿戴科技領域的研發工程師、製造商和愛好者。對於學習互動設計、物理計算、技術、時尚或藝術的教師、學生和研究人員也很有用。對Arduino系統有基本了解將有助於更容易理解本書的內容。