Internally his heart rate monitor is using an Arduino Pro Mini, a small OLED screen, and a turn-key pulse sensor which was originally conceived as a Kickstarter in 2011 by “World Famous ...

He wanted to do a little more with the equipment so he ditched the watch and built an Arduino-based heart rate monitor. He’s still using the chest strap and was happy to find that SparkFun sells ...

You may be interested in a project published to the Hackster.io website earlier this year providing instructions on how to create a simple wearable heart rate monitor using an Arduino Nano R3.

Adding sensors to your Arduino opens up a whole new world of exciting projects. Here are some of the best sensors around. MUO. 8 Unique Sensors for Arduino Microcontroller Boards.

While Bluetooth heart rate monitors can meet the needs of most people—pairing the monitor with a smartwatch, say—ANT+ allows you to connect the heart monitor to multiple devices at once.

If you prefer, you can use the Sport Pulse heart rate monitor while connected to a third-party app such as Endomondo, Strava, and MapMyFitness. I preferred Bose's sound quality over Jabra's.

For each test, Profis got three heart rate readings at rest and three after running on a treadmill. EKG is the gold standard for measuring heart rate using electricity sensors to detect the small ...

Optical heart-rate monitors are the most common pulse sensors in wearables. Most of them glean heart-rate data through "photoplethysmography" (PPG), or the process of using light to measure blood ...

The best heart rate monitor from Garmin, Wahoo, Polar and more tested, reviewed and ranked by T3's wearable experts ...