[PD] Heart rate and brainwave sensor

[Bo.T]

hi,

we did heartrate with Ed Severin's (sp??) BodySynth, using the EMG
(muscle
tension) to respond to the heart muscle contracting.

Heart rate is easier and safer with an IR blood sensor, as used
in (e.g.) fitness/jogging machines. these things clip over your
earlobe or the skin between your fingers.

I think this is useful (not online right now)

http://www.media.mit.edu/~marrin/HTMLThesis/2.6.htm


Brainwave stuff with the IBVA is really silly. But it makes some
midi data, and someone has made a Max patch to receive the
serial data direct from the IBVA receiverand interpret it.I have
something deep in my archives should this be relevant. you might
be able to rebuild this for PD.

Note that if you want to attach anything with electrodes
to your body, your are putting yourself (or others!) at
extreme risk if there is not an airgap or an extremely expensive
medical grade safety thing in place. Ed Severinghaus (shite, I lost his
real name in my memory cells....) and the IBVA use the airgaps of a
radio
transmitter. this makes it all mobile, which is a bonus. maybe.

hope this makes some sense.....

chrz,

tm




arm pdlist wrote:
> 
> Greetings from Portugal.
> 
> 
> 
> This is my first post, so i'll introduce me. I am a master's degree
> student in multimedia technology and i'm currently starting to work to
> my thesys. I will build a system that can react to a heart rate and a
> brainwave sensor. The system woud interpret those signals and create
> music and images/video according to that. I think that PD would be the
> ideal programming software for that. The main problem, and where i'm
> searching for help, is this:
> 
> - do you guys knows about some sensors that i can use to measure the
> heart rate and brainwave? I've made a quick search over the net but i
> couldn't find anything.
> 
> - how do i connect those sensors with PD? I suppose they will be
> connected to the computer via USB (my laptop only has USB ports)
> bu ban PD read values from an USB port?
> 
> - I would be everything much easier if i could connect those sensors
> to a I-CubeX system, so i would only deal with MIDI data. Do you know
> any heart rate and branwave sensor that can be plugged to an I-CubeX
> system?
> 
> The ideal scenario would be to have those two sensors to transmit MIDI
> data to a MIDI interface, but i don't know if this is possible.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Armindo Dias
> 
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