Code for Pulse, a realtime visualization of my heartbeat.

• Polar T31 Transmitter
• Polar Heart Rate Monitor Interface
• Arduino Uno
• One server for sending values from the Arduino, another for receiving heartrate data and displaying realtime d3 visualization*

*Ideal/future versions of this project would use an Arduino Yun or external/cloud server. Because of time constraints, I just used two laptops.

In Pulse, heart rate data is collected in real-time, then visually and publicly broadcast. Using personal interaction as an interface, Pulse questions the ability of biometric data to reveal, clarify, obscure, and intrude.

Shown at Data & Society Reception, May 17 2016.

This tutorial was useful.

Still need to amend the server.js file.

Special thanks to Myk Bilokonsky for Javascript help.