Photon Wearable Shield Hookup Guide
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Resources and Going Further
Now that you know a little bit more about the Photon Wearables Shield, it is time to start your project! These links may be useful in your journey:
- SparkFun Photon Wearables Shield Repo -- this is where to go for the hardware files and documentation.
- Particle Documentation Pages -- go here to set up and configure your Photon (or other Particle devices).
- Particle Community Forum -- anything that you couldn't find in the docs should be easily found in the community forum. If you are having trouble, search this forum first, as many of the answers are there already.
Check out these related wearables tutorials:
LDK Experiment 1: Lighting Up a Basic Circuit
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Insulation Techniques for e-Textiles
Learn a few different ways to protect your conductive thread and LilyPad components in your next wearables project.
Bare Conductive Musical Painting
Learn how to make a musical painting using the Bare Conductive Touch Board and Conductive Paint.
Origami Paper Circuits
A quick tutorial to get you started in the world of light up origami flowers.
The Wearables Shield pairs very well with any of our other Photon Shields; check out our hookup guides for those shields:
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Photon Battery Shield Hookup Guide
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Photon OLED Shield Hookup Guide
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Photon IMU Shield Hookup Guide
Learn how to use the SparkFun Photon IMU Shield for your Photon device which houses an on-board LSM9DS1 system-in-a-chip that houses a 3-axis accelerometer, 3-axis gyroscope, and 3-axis magnetometer.