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Purr Programming Shirt Part 4 — Adding Android Wear Support

Posted on by Lance Gleason

In the first three parts of this series we discussed how to create a wearable garment (in our case, a t-shirt) with LEDs, how to connect it to an Android device using MetaWear, and how to make it change colors…

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Purr Programming Shirt Part 3 – Changing Colors Based On Twitter Notifications

Posted on by Lance Gleason

In the previous installment of this blog series, we talked about setting up a service to talk to the MetaWear board. In the app, we flash and change the colors of the LEDs on the t-shirt by sending broadcast intents…

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Purr Programming Shirt Part 2 — Communicating with the MetaWear

Posted on by Lance Gleason

In Part 1 of this series, we talked about the hardware for our Purr Programming t-shirt and how we connected all of the components. Now let’s talk about the Android app that controls the shirt’s LEDs. Our app has the…

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Purr Programming Shirt Part 1 — The Hardware

Posted on by Lance Gleason

If you’ve met the folks at Polyglot Programming, you know that we love cats, t-shirts, and wearables. Which is, of course, exactly why we recently came up with an idea to combine all three into a project. No, we didn’t…

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Measuring Your Heart Rate on Android Using MetaWear

Posted on by Lance Gleason

While the MbientLab MetaWear has a number of sensors built into the board, it also has the ability to interface with a host of analog sensors. With many wearable devices focusing on fitness, you might find yourself needing to integrate…

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Logging Thermistor Data With The MetaWear

Posted on by Lance Gleason

The MetaWear board allows you to easily create bluetooth enabled low power wearable devices. Unlike many solutions, as an Android developer you can write applications that program, and interact with the board using a API. We recently created an application…

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Using MetaWear with Node.js

Posted on by Lance Gleason

Back in October 2014 I attended a talk by Erica Stanley called “Open Source and the Internet of Things” at the All Things Open conference in Raleigh. We were just starting to do wearable development beyond Android Wear and Google…

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Interacting with the Android lifecycle in a Cordova Plugin

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Anyone who’s attended one of my talks during the past year, knows that I love Mbientlab’s MetaWear boards. They’re great for prototyping wearables that offer rich APIs for Android and iOS. That said, when you’re prototyping a device, you may…

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Creating a Pedometer Using MetaWear and Android

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Six months ago we started to play with a really cool wearable prototyping board called MetaWear from Mbientlab. If you haven’t heard of them you can read about the platform over here.  The idea behind them is that they are…

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Using Google Glass For Reveal.js Speaker Notes

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I have been a Glass explorer since last November and regularly give a lot of talks at conferences and meetups. One of the first things that I really wanted to have was a way to have my speaker notes be…

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