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. You’ll scratch-build your own perfboard Arduino, assemble the Open Heart LED display, and learn how to use the AMPED pulse sensor. It’s the next best thing to wearing your heart on your sleeve.

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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 […]

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