The installation "pacefaker" consists of two Arduino Nano 33 IoT boards of which one is hooked up to a Sparkfun BioSensor for pulse measurement, while the other one sits inside a silicon-casted human heart to power to mimic the measured heart beat. Commuication between the boards is realised with BLE and built up upon sample code by Jeremy Ellis: https://forum.arduino.cc/t/html-connect-to-ble-using-p5-ble-js-and-p5-js/629754

Handling the BioSensor is based on sample code by Elias Santistevan, Sparkfun Electronics: https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/sparkfun-pulse-oximeter-and-heart-rate-monitor-hookup-guide#hardware-hookup

In a first step, the BLE setup is tested by connecting the sensor unit to a website (works best in Chrome).

The interactive installation was presented in February 2023 at Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel, Germany.