Beating Heart Headband
From MAKE Magazine
This project first appeared on the pages of MAKE magazine.
Display your heart rate on a heart-shaped display.
- Author: Becky Stern
- Difficulty: Moderate
This project is a collaboration with Jimmie Rodgers. Build a pulse-sensing headband that flashes a heart-shaped LED display to the beating of your heart! Uses a scratch-built perf board Arduino built from Mintduino parts, the Open Heart LED display, Yury and Joel's pulse sensor, and a rechargeable lithium battery and power board. The circuit is built into a brocade headband with elastic at the back.
Tools
- PanaVise

- Scissors
- Sewing machine or needle & thread
- Soldering iron
- Wire cutter/stripper
Relevant parts
- Mintronics: MintDuino or components to build your own

Relevant parts (continued)
- Open Heart LED Display Kit

- Perfboard
- Brocade ribbon or fabric for the headband

- Elastic cord
- Pulse Sensor

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Edit Step 1
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Beating Heart Headband
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Gather materials and tools.
Download the necessary Arduino code for the heartbeat headband.

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Assemble the Open Heart display.
Further instructions on the Open Heart documentation page

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Headband time! Measure around the circumference of your head, then cut two pieces of ribbon to that length.
Thanks to Britex Fabrics for supplying the beautiful brocade and grosgrain ribbon for this project!
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