Are You Okay? Widget

Contributors: elecia

Building The Hardware

Here's an overview of the hardware hookup:

The build is fairly straight forward. We start with soldering:

Attach a two pin header to the Electric Imp breakout board for GND and VIN. Solder on the battery wires. Hot glue them to reinforce the connection.
Break off 9 pins from the header, and solder those to the Imp breakout board.
Since you’ll need two ground wires (one for the accelerometer and one for the LED), cut the end off of one jumper wire, strip the coating, and solder it to the Imp breakout board. (We can wait to hot glue until the jumper wires are in place.)
Solder a 6-pin header onto the accelerometer.

Now wire up the system:

Imp Breakout Pin	Wire Color	Goes To	Use
PIN1	Blue	Accel's I1	Interrupt to wake up the Imp.
PIN2	Red	LED's red leg	PWM red
PIN5	Blue	LED's blue leg	PWM blue
PIN7	Green	LED's green leg	PWM green
PIN8	Yellow	Accel's SCL	I²C clock signal
PIN9	Green	Accel's SDA	I²C data signal
3V3	Red	Accel's 3.3V	Power
GND	Black	Accel's GND	Ground
GND	Black	LED cathode (longest leg)	Ground

After you are done, the result should look something like this:

Note: the extra ground wire is soldered on the 2-pin power header and is ready for a battery connection to be soldered to it.