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I loaned a prototype to one of my former Parsons students who once had a heart beat project but since abandoned it. He will resurect the project and use our Pulse Sensor. Here is a link to his blog about his progress. Resuscitate the Heart Rate (Monitor)

There's lots of schematics and guides online that show how to make your own optical heart rate monitor from scratch. With the rise in popularity and accessibility of powerful microcontrollers like Arduino, hackers and designers and DIY enthusiasts are looking for ways to incorporate Bio-sensing and Bio-feedback into their projects, and the optical heart-rate monitor is one direction many folks go toward. Some of the online tutorials are long and complicated, some of them specify exotic parts or require mad soldering skills, all of them are big and clunky and hard to implement in real world conditions where a user...

We are starting our Kickstarter campaign today. Watch our video and help us fund the project!  Thanks!

"Pulse Sensor" is a well-designed 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. After a few months of testing a gaggle of techniques, we developed what we think is an innovative pulse sensor. Our prototype (and accompanying code) plugs right into Arduino and easily clips onto a fingertip or earlobe. It's super small too, button-sized with holes, so can be sewn into a garment as well.  We'd like to manufacturer the actual pulse sensor, making it low-cost, and...