Flexible and Printed Electronics: The Circuits of the Future
An overview of flexible and printed electronics, two technologies that are changing how circuits and electronic devices are designed, from medical wearables to automotive sensors.
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This wearable stimulates your brain to improve memory
Humm has announced a wearable that provides you with “neurostimulation” that you wear for 15 minutes a day to improve your memory. The Berkeley, California-based company said it measured a 20% improvement in working memory and a rate of learning that was 120 times faster than a placebo after a 15-minute session with the wearable patch. More…
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Gymsoles Enables a Correct Posture During Your Workout
University of Auckland’s Augmented Human Lab have prototyped a wearable system called GymSoles to help you to improve your workout by monitoring and correcting your form. “GymSoles enables a correct execution of exercises, such as squats and dead-lifts by solely providing feedback on the Centre of Pressure (CoP). We developed a prototype consisting of a…
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DIY Open Source “Smarch Watch”
Samson March, an inquisitive Redditor, recently revealed that he built an entire smartwatch from scratch and he shared details of the process down to the smallest minutiae: his creation is named Smarch Watch. I decided sometime last year that I wanted to make a smart watch from scratch. I am an electrical engineer and product…
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DIY Laser-Spiked Jacket, Ready to Dance!
Inspired by Yoshii Kazuya’s laser-spiked outfit, github user abetusk decided to create an excellent version of the getup by embedding 128 laser diodes in his own jacket. These lasers are powered by an Arduino Nano, along with a pair of I2C PWM output boards, allowing them to be switched in sets of four. The lasers…
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DIY Your Christmas Shirt!
If you are searching for a cool project for Christmas, for sure it’s not like an amazing house light system, but instructables user Magesh Jayakumar has created something you’ll find inspiring: a wearable light system! Hello all, do you want to Make something fun and cool for the holiday season , here’s an Instructable for…
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Wifi and Bluetooth in a Raspberry Pi Smart Watch
How great would it be to wear a DIY Smartwatch? Maybe it was the first thought of Tylersuard, the maker of this project. In practice, the maker explains that this smartwatch was created to impress a friend at work and the headers from the Raspberry Pi Zero W have been soldered upside down making them…
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Blyst Nano is a Finger-tip tiny Bluetooth 5 board with 30 I/O pins and more
BLYST Nano is a new tiny ARM Cortex-M4F module which has been created offering Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity, Bluetooth Mesh and 30 input and outputs. The module is now available to purchase on crowdsupply priced from $17 with free shipping throughout the US included for worldwide shipping available for an extra $8. With a design based…
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BLE Micro EVB v2.0 is a Bluetooth 4.0 Development Board for Wearable Projects
BLEmicro series, made by DFRobot, is Bluetooth 4.0 development kits specifically designed for professional developers. It is equipped with all the Bluetooth features of Bluno (an Arduino uno form factor development board) main controller, which can help the developers to achieve remarkable results. In addition, the latest firmware V1.8 is able to support the AT…
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Solar Boost Bag: the Portable Solar Charger You Might Need
If you would like to add a solar panel to your favourite backpack or bag you may be interested in a new tutorial published to the Adafruit website detailing how you can boost the power from a small solar panel to directly charge your smartphone store the energy in a lithium ion battery for use…
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Bring Windows OS to your DIY Watch
The Windows Wrist Watch 2.0 boots the classic Windows 95, 98 and XP operating systems on the Raspberry Pi and displays them on a wearable four-inch touchscreen. The “watch” itself also looks rather clunky, and is basically akin to strapping a large phone to your wrist. The project requires a Pi 3 Model B+, Pimoroni’s HyperPixel 4.0…
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LIGHTS CONTROL THROUGH GESTURE
The Tactigon is a board for wearable applications prototyping, able to recognize gestures and different kind of movements, thanks to the firmware availability and simple programming which are typical of the Arduino environment. You knew about it In the introductory post published issue and in the first proposed application; now you can see it in…
