Mintronics: MintDuino

Beating Heart Headband

Beating Heart Headband

Build a pulse-sensing headband that flashes an LED array in time to the beating of your heart. Youโ€™ll scratch-build your own perfboard Arduino, assemble the Open Heart LED display, and learn how to use the AMPED pulse sensor. Itโ€™s the next best thing to wearing your heart on your sleeve.

Learn About Microcontrollers by Building a Mintronics: MintDuino

Learn About Microcontrollers by Building a Mintronics: MintDuino

The MintDuino is perfect for anyone interested in learning (or teaching) the fundamentals of how microcontrollers work. It will have you building your own microcontroller from scratch on a breadboard, and then easily programming it from almost any computer via the Arduino programming environment. Unlike pre-built microcontrollers, the MintDuino demonstrates the specific relationship between the […]