In Becky’s video about the Adafruit Menta, she challenged customers to send in their applications of the Menta.
Not wanting to let her down, I just completed the design and construction of an ECG simulator (creates that famous heart waveform signal you see on all the medical shows).
As an ardent supporter of Open Source, I documented the design with an 87 page tutorial on GitHub, including all the drawings and software created for the project.
If you take the time to download the tutorial (pdf), you’ll see that it’s a very nice example of applying the Adafruit Menta.
Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, or even use Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for MakeCode, CircuitPython, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
Have an amazing project to share? The Electronics Show and Tell with Google Hangouts On-Air is every Wednesday at 7:30pm ET! To join, head over to YouTube and check out the show’s live chat – we’ll post the link there.
