Joel Murphy and Yury Gitman, the creators of the Pulse Sensor, have made a KickStarter page to get its design off the ground.
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 it can be sewn into a garment as well. We’d like to manufacturer the actual pulse sensor, making it low-cost, open source, and accessible for students, artists, and developers.
I have several projects in mind that would benefit from heart rate data, but the last time I checked commercial Pulse/Oximeter components are not cheep. I am looking forward to this adding this low cost biosensor to my bag of tricks.
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The biggest hurdle to making biosensors for anything other than “entertainment” is getting government approval. The FDA is just starting to pay attention to this area; noting recent guidelines for iOS apps that dispense “medical” streams of information. I hope this kind of work is not hindered too much by red tape; it’s really fun to think about biosensors being used innovatively to improve lives.
The biggest hurdle to making biosensors for anything other than “entertainment” is getting government approval. The FDA is just starting to pay attention to this area; noting recent guidelines for iOS apps that dispense “medical” streams of information. I hope this kind of work is not hindered too much by red tape; it’s really fun to think about biosensors being used innovatively to improve lives.