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 4 — Adding Android Wear Support
Posted in Android, Android Wear, Development, Kotlin, MetaWear, Mobile, Wearables Tagged with: Android, Android Wear, Kotlin, MetaWear, Wearables
Purr Programming Shirt Part 3 – Changing Colors Based On Twitter Notifications
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…
Posted in Android, Android Notifications, Development, Kotlin, MetaWear, Mobile, Wearables Tagged with: Android, Android Notifications, Kotlin, MetaWear, Mobile, Wearables
Purr Programming Shirt Part 2 — Communicating with the MetaWear
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…
Purr Programming Shirt Part 1 — The Hardware
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…
Posted in Android, Development, MetaWear, Mobile, Uncategorized, Wearables Tagged with: Android, MetaWear, Purr Programming, Wearables
Measuring Your Heart Rate on Android Using MetaWear
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…
Logging Thermistor Data With The MetaWear
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…
Using MetaWear with Node.js
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…
Posted in ChromeOS, Development, Javascript, MetaWear, Node.js, Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu, Wearables Tagged with: Chrome OS, Mac OS, MetaWear, Node.js, Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu
Creating a Pedometer Using MetaWear and Android
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…