Wearable Electronics with Becky Stern – Premiere Episode!
Join Becky Stern and friends every week as we delve into the wonderful world of wearables, live on YouTube. We’ll answer your questions, announce a discount code for the Adafruit store, and explore wearable components, techniques, special materials, and projects you can build at home! Wearable Electronics with Becky Stern – Premiere Episode
100+ videos
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Engadget Show 44
I make an appearance in this video about Adafruit for the Engadget Show episode 44.
Heart Rate Badge
Build a badge to show the beat of your heart! This wearable project uses the Polar heart rate sensor, which you wear around your ribcage and it wirelessly transmits heartbeats to the receiver chip included in the educational starter pack. The badge can be worn on your clothes or bag and is held in place by a magnetic pin back. Make the heart-shaped NeoPixel version, or use an 8×8 LED matrix with an i2c backpack to display your heart rate as a number or make your own bitmap animations.
Supplies
You will need the following items:
- Polar Wireless heart sensor educational starter pack
- FLORA main board
- 150 mAh lipoly battery (with charger)
- Eight FLORA NeoPixels or 8×8 LED matrix w i2c backpack
- Magnetic pin back
- Sugru
- Thin stranded wire
- Double-stick tape or foam
- Soldering iron and solder
- Multimeter
- Wire strippers
- Flush diagonal cutters
- Small pliers
- Tweezers
- Third hand tool
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