Heart Spark jewelry beats to your heart

The folks at SenseBridge, a research group that meets at the NoiseBridge hackerspace, just released this Heart Spark necklace pendant. It’s got a receiver for a Polar heart rate monitor built into it, and has space to add a real-time clock and extra storage if you want to turn it into a heart-rate monitor. The source code for the project is already available, and schematics and board layouts are promised soon.

This looks like it would be fun both as-it, and as a building block for more advanced body monitoring designs. Anyone want to make a recreation of Takehito Etani’s Pimp My Heart?

[via HeatSync Labs]

More:

• Collin’s Lab: Infrared heart sensor
• Sending a heartbeat over ethernet
• Loveduino, a heart-shaped Arduino board @Makezine.com blog