Chapter 1: PulseSensor Introduced  

●      Introduction

●      Quick PulseSensor Development Story

●      PPG  

●      Green LED, Color-Coded Wires, 

●      Putting a Multimeter on the Header Pins to Measure Voltage Changes.

●      What's included in the PulseSensor Kit, and why

Chapter 2: Battery and a Breadboard

●      Breadboard Configuration with 3 Volts, 2x AA batteries 

●      Blinking an LED with a live pulse.

●      Buzz and Piezo and Blink and LED

●      Includes illustrations of circuit

●      Includes project parts list

Chapter 3: Voltage Requirements and Outputting a Fluctuating Voltage Signal

●      Demonstrate the correct multimeter setting and reading for a 3 Volt configuration. 

●      Demonstrate the correct multimeter setting and reading for a 5 Volt configuration. 

●      See how to troubleshoot connection and power issues with any PulseSensor project quickly. 

●      Includes Illustrations so readers do not need an actual multimeter

●      Table showing the best setting for analog and digital multimeters

●      Blinking an LED Heart with the PulseSensor.

●      Reading and displaying BPM on the matrix LED Screen.

●      Showing different Emoji faces with different BPM readings.

●      Send BPM readings over Bluetooth to the micro:bit Android or iOS app. 

Chapter 5: Arduino UNO

●      PulseSensor Library

●      PulseSensor Examples (Image and Paragraph Description)

●      Using the most up-to-date library

Chapter 6: Arduino, LEDs, and Speakers 

●      "Blink to the Beat": LED circuit and example code breakdown 

●      "Beep and Blink to the Beat": speaker circuit and example code breakdown

●      Different BPM example code for different Arduino boards explained

Chapter 7: Arduino & Servo Motors

●      Considerations for using a servo and PulseSensor together

●      Servo motor circuit

●      Servo example code

●      Includes review of the functions and objects used in the code

Chapter 8: Visualizing the Beat with Processing

●      Introduction to using the PulseSensor with Processing

●      Walk-through our example code and GUI

●      Visualizing the BPM in a GUI.

●      Includes review of the functions and objects used in the code

Chapter 9: Two PulseSensors

●      Project Introduction

●      Example Code

●      Circuit Illustrations

Chapter 10: PulseSensor and RaspberryPi 

●      The PulseSensor and RasPi wiring setup  

●      Python code for the RasPi

Chapter 11: Making It Small and Portable. 

●      Power, Size, and Portability Considerations

●      WiFi and Battery Set-Up

●      HelloWorld Example Code

●      Options for sending live beats and BPM wireless

Chapter 12: PulseSensor on the Arduino IoT Cloud 

●      Introduction to the Arduino IoT Cloud

●      Creating a live HeartBeat Arduino Cloud Dashboard

●      Creating a real-time BPM Arduino Cloud Dashboard

Chapter 13: Future Possibilities

●      J and Y list where they get inspiration for new projects

●      Invite other makers and build upon existing examples

●      Best Practices for publishing and sharing open source PulseSensor projects

​Joel Murphy (BFA MassArt, Boston; MFA UC San Diego) is a creative technologist living in Brooklyn. He owns Flywheel Lab, a business designing and fabricating electro-mechanical projects for artists and designers. He taught Physical Computing at Parsons from 2006 to 2014. He’s also the co-founder of OpenBCI.       

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