Heart Rate Monitor Downloads
Download PDF Manual: hrmi.pdf (updated to revision 1.1)
Download the code examples in the manual Appendix B: hrmi_demos.zip (Arduino 0018)
A quick shout out to François Morin for finding a typo. Check out his very cool use of the HRMI in Elektra10.
Processing Demo
Download: hrmi_graph.zip
Demonstrates how to access the HRMI
through the USB interface using the Processing development environment. Pressing the
"Average" button will put the HRMI into Average mode and
display a running heartrate. Pressing the "Raw" button
will put the HRMI into Raw mode. Pressing the "Hold"
button suspends polling of the HRMI and update of the
display but keeps the serial port open. Pressing the
"Disable" button closes the serial port (so you can
safely unplug the HRMI). Runs on Windows, Mac OS X and
Linux machines. The zip file contains both the source
and precompiled binaries for all three platforms. Be
sure to note the name of the serial port driver your
system has associated with the HRMI. The hrmi_graph
application will display a list of serial port devices
it finds on your system and you must select the one
associated with the HRMI.
Note for Microsoft Windows users: The precompiled binary
for this application does not include the java folder
because it is so large. You must either have java 1.5
installed on your system or you can copy the java folder
from the processing application folder (e.g.
processing-0135) to the hrmi_graph/application.windows
folder.
Note for Linux users: You should have java 1.5 installed.
You may also have to add yourself to both the uucp and lock
groups so that processing can write to /var/lock when the
rxtx serial library used by the Processing environment
attempts to get a lock for the serial port. Run the
hrmi_graph/application.linux/hrmi_graph script to start the
application.
Note for Mac OS X users: You're cool. Java is already
installed! Just double-click the hrmi_graph.app icon in the
hrmi_graph/application.macosx folder.
Wiring Demos
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video)
Download: arduino_10bar.zip
This demo drives a 10-segment common
anode bar-graph LED with a representation of your immediate
heart rate value. It runs on an Arduino (shown here running on the
excellent Modern Device "freeduino" clone) and interfaces
using I2C. All you need are a couple of 4.7 kohm
pull-ups on the I2C lines, the bar-graph display (or 10
discrete LEDs) and a single 180 - 270 ohm current
limiting resistor (you only need one because only one
LED is ever on at a time).
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video)
Download: arduino_ascii_disp.zip
This demo drives an old Siemens PD3537 intelligent green dot-matrix LED display. It's very easy to drive a modern parallel or serial LCD module using libraries that come with the free and easy-to-use Arduino development system. Or use whatever displays are knocking around your parts drawer.