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Pulse Sensor
Heart rate data can be really useful whether you’re designing an exercise routine, studying your activity or anxiety levels or just want your shirt to blink ...
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Heart rate data can be really useful whether you’re designing an exercise routine, studying your activity or anxiety levels or just want your shirt to blink with your heart beat. The problem is that heart rate can be difficult to measure. Luckily, the Pulse Sensor Amped can solve that problem!
The Pulse Sensor Amped is a plug-and-play heart-rate sensor for Arduino. It can be used by students, artists, athletes, makers, and game & mobile developers who want to easily incorporate live heart-rate data into their projects.It essentially combines a simple optical heart rate sensor with amplification and noise cancellation circuitry making it fast and easy to get reliable pulse readings. Also, it sips power with just 4mA current draw at 5V so it’s great for mobile applications.
Simply clip the Pulse Sensor to your earlobe or finger tip and plug it into your 3 or 5 Volt Arduino and you’re ready to read heart rate! The 24" cable on the Pulse Sensor is terminated with standard male headers so there’s no soldering required. Of course Arduino example code is available as well as a Processing sketch for visualizing heart rate data.
Dimensions: 0.625" Diameter and 0.125" Thick
Kit Includes:
- Pulse Sensor Board
- 24-inch Color-Coded Cable with Standard Male Headers
- Ear Clip for Earlobe Heart Rate Measurement
- Velcro Finger Strap
- Transparent Stickers to Protect Sensor
Documents:
Jargon buster
Plain-language definitions for the technical terms used above.
- Headers
- Rows of connector contacts on a fixed pitch (commonly 2.54 mm) used to link a board to a breadboard, jumper wires, or another board. They come as male pin headers and female socket headers; when a module ships with pre-soldered headers it can be used straight away, whereas bare pads require soldering the pins yourself.
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Source Code
Open-source libraries, firmware & example projects for this product
Processing code for pulse wave visualization
6dae78a
about 8 years ago
· 62 commits
- pics Merge branch 'master' into master over 8 years ago
- PulseSensorAmpd_Processing_Visualizer Changed name of sketch to match sketch folder over 8 years ago
- LICENSE Initial commit over 11 years ago
- README.md Removed reference to arbitrary line number about 8 years ago
PulseSensor Arduino code for BPM and Processing-Visualizer
99f72a3
almost 8 years ago
· 165 commits
- pics Major Update over 9 years ago
- PulseSensorAmped_Arduino_1.5.0 Update Timer_Interrupt_Notes.ino over 9 years ago
- LICENSE Initial commit over 11 years ago
- README.md updated video URL almost 8 years ago
- video-still.png Add files via upload over 9 years ago
The Best Way to Get Started with your PulseSensor and Arduino
987246d
almost 8 years ago
· 74 commits
- PulseSensor_StarterProject_Arduino Delay Adjustment over 9 years ago
- Arduino-LEDonPin13-PulseSensor-Pic.jpg added readme images. over 9 years ago
- connections.png added image over 9 years ago
- README.md Updated Video Link almost 8 years ago
- screenshot-threshold-arrows.png added readme images. over 9 years ago
- video-play.png Add files via upload over 9 years ago
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