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Introducing Easy Pulse Plugin: A breadboard friendly and Arduino/chipKIT compatible pulse sensor

Today we are happy to announce the release of a new addition to our Easy Pulse Sensor series named Easy Pulse Plugin. Like its predecessors, the original Easy Pulse and Easy Pulse V1.1, Easy Pulse Plugin also operates on the principle of Photoplethysmography, which is an optical technique of sensing blood volume changes in tissues by illuminating the skin surface with a light source and measuring the reflected or transmitted light using a photodetector. The photodetector output contains the cardiovascular pulse wave, which is synchronized with the beating of the heart. Easy Pulse Plugin provides all necessary instrumentation and amplification on board to detect the cardiovascular pulse signal from the fingertip. The most important characteristics of Easy Pulse Plugin is that it can be easily plugged into the left headers of Arduino Uno (or its compatible clone) board for easy interfacing, and the analog pulse signal can be fed to either A0 or A1 analog input through a 2-pin jumper selection. You can buy this sensor at our Tindie Store as well as from Elecrow with worldwide shipping.

Easy Pulse Plugin module

Easy Pulse Plugin module

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Easy Pulse Plugin is easy to interface to an Arduino Board

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Portable multifunctional tool with Nokia 3310 casing

Mastro Gippo’s 1337 3310 multifunctional portable tool is hacker’s Swiss knife in the shell of Nokia’s most durable and iconic 3310 phone and is also the winner of Hackaday’s Trinket Everyday Carry Contest. It features ohmmeter, graphing multimeter with simultaneous measurements of current and voltage, as well as instantaneous and average power consumption measurements that help to estimate the battery life of your prototypic design. He also maintained the original look and feel of Nokia 3310 by developing the similar user interface for his tool. The continuity tester feature plays the original Nokia tune as output.

Nokia 3310 portable multifunctional tool

Nokia 3310 portable multifunctional tool