DIY-ing a multi-sensor tracker for the following: Heart Rate Sensor and/or Galvanic Skin Response and/or Skin Temperature.
Has anyone done this recently? Please share how you did it, what you learned and what your recommendations are.
I’ve found several options (BITalino vs Arduino vs pieces from here and there put together.). Not sure what route to take! So I thought I’d look for hints here first before I spend my savings on things that may not work. Thanks all and happy tracking!
shaikhanaser:
I spend my savings on things that may not work.
I will tell you now that it will not work the first time. Might as well get this mind set. I don’t have any experience with relation to your project, but I can give you this advice, do alot of research which means read everything! I know Sparkfun sells a few items you might be interested in.
These links are from a Google search which took about a minute to find all of them. These should get you started. If you have any detailed questions, please ask.
On top of these, you will need some kind of micro controller to makes sense of this data and feed it to you. You can even have a LCD display this data. It’s really how complex you want to make it. Just remember, don’t buy everything at once. Get an Arduino and the heart heart rate monitor and get it working, then move on to the next module like the temp sensor. Get everything working separately, then start putting everything together. This is the biggest problem with beginners, they want everything to work together the first time. It’s not going to happen.
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