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Bio Circuit: a wearable soundscape

Using a heart rate monitor, a hacked MP3 player and a LilyPad Arduino, Dana Ramler and Holly Schmidt developed a wearable bio circuit: With each beat of the heart, Bio Circuit connects the wearer with the inner workings of their body. In this sense the garment functions like other biofeedback devices that use sensors to […]

Continue Reading December 2nd, 2009 Peter Horvath4

Tom Igoe’s monkey tracking adventures

Tom Igoe, author of Making Things Talk, is in the rainforest in eastern Ecuador, applying his sensor and embedded hacking skills to tracking monkeys (from Part 4 of his adventure postings): This morning, Kevin and Tony and I went to look for titi monkeys. We didn’t find any, but we did manage to get lost, […]

Continue Reading January 12th, 2009 Brian Jepson