PULSE SENSOR

A wearable device to give your projects a live heartbeat.

BY YURY GITMAN AND JOEL MURPHY

Poets and artists have always sought to bare their hearts to the world, and today heartbeat monitoring is essential to physicians, athletes, and many others. The beating of our hearts carries evocative power, symbolic meaning, musicality, and practical utility, so it’s not surprising that many DIYers try to incorporate it into their projects.

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Matt Richardson

Colleagues at Parsons The New School for Design, Yury Gitman is a toy inventor and product designer who teaches Physical Computing and Toy Design, and Joel Murphy is an artist and engineer ...

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