Joe Saavedra writes:
The concept is a wearable version of Conway’s Game of Life, that is controlled by the current state of your life. Essentially, a wearable extension of your heart, externalized in the form of Conway’s Life. A custom circuit includes an infrared EKG monitor that resets the Game each time a heartbeat is detected. Heartbeat data is analyzed by a hackduino which resets an ATMega48 chip, part of Adafruit’s kit controlling Life, which is embedded in the chest of a hoodie. Conductive thread is used to connect the 16 LED matrix to the circuit board which is kept in a pocket towards the bottom of the hoodie.
More:
- Collin’s Lab: Infrared heart sensor
- Soft circuit hoodie warms, illuminates lucky dog
- TV-B-Gone hoodie
- Touch Sensitive LilyPad Arduino Hoodie
In the Maker Shed:
Nice idea… I remember back in the early 80s when I began tinkering with BASIC and typed in all the code for LIFE from a magazine (BYTE, maybe?)… I was hooked.
I like this but I’d prefer a larger resolution – maybe 16 x 16 or even 32 x 32?