Open Heart brooch

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By Becky Stern
Posted 2008/10/29 @ 6:38 pm
Category Arduino, Electronics, Open Source Hardware, Tools

Today I combined Jimmie Rogers’ Open Heart kit with a LilyPad Arduino board to make a light-up, animating LED heart brooch. I used conductive thread to attach the two together like a sandwich, and put a safety pin on the power supply. I dangled the brooch from the power supply with embroidery floss and the power/ground wires. The programming pins are still easily accessible for changing the animations. Oh, I also made an instructable for putting together your own.
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9 Responses to Open Heart brooch

Anonymous on October 29th, 2008 at 6:38 pm said:

It would be interesting if you hook up a lilypad arduino to some sort of biometric reader which can detect your pulse. Then, you could program the open heart kit to flash with the beating of your heart.

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- Vanessa Carpenter on December 15th, 2009 at 2:07 am said:
  
  “Then, you could program the open heart kit to flash with the beating of your heart.”
  
  I like this brooch idea – we did something similar but did hook up heart rate to visually broadcast one’s pulse.
  
  We made a heart rate necklace: http://geekphysical.blogspot.com/2008/11/biometric-jewelry.html
  
  and a Biometric Social Interaction System: http://geekphysicalbiometrics.blogspot.com/2009/11/bsi-video.html
  
  In the Biometric Social Interaction System, people could interact based on their heart rate, galvanic skin response and gaze direction.
  
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ben on October 29th, 2008 at 9:05 pm said:

i’m more interested in her shirt! anyone know where one could acquire such a shirt?

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Becky Stern on October 29th, 2008 at 8:28 pm said:

@Anonymous: yes! excellent idea!

@Ben: It was a limited edition Parsons Design & Technology shirt from undergrad. We made one every year, but there aren’t any more of this one, sorry. My favorite one is “word to your motherboard.”

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Gareth Branwyn on October 29th, 2008 at 8:33 pm said:

Cool project, Becky!

Re: T-shirt
I assume the first crossed-out phrase was: “sex, drugs & rock and roll.” What was the first word in the second phrase? Please tell me the designer did the right thing and kept sex

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Becky Stern on October 29th, 2008 at 8:38 pm said:

The first line is “sex, drugs, & rock and roll” with just “drugs & rock and roll” struck out, and the second line is just “design & technology” which was the name of the department. So yes, Gar. =]

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Patti Schiendelman on October 29th, 2008 at 9:30 pm said:

Someone needs to make “Is that an arduino in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?” shirt.

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JacqueChadall on October 30th, 2008 at 3:27 am said:

All these comments and no one’s mentioned how hot Becky is? I’m surprised the solder was able to hold together ;-D!!!!

–JacqueChadall

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Joebob on October 30th, 2008 at 11:46 am said:

Becky sure has my heart thumping!

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