EKG-controlled Game of Life hoodie

Gameoflifehoodie



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.

Via MAKE!

Filed under: game of life,open source hardware — by adafruit, posted February 18, 2010 at 11:42 am

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2 Comments

  1. All right, that’s a call to arms. I’m going to cover my 1990 Honda Civic with GOL modules now…

    Comment by chasterus — February 18, 2010 @ 3:21 pm

  2. Instead of resetting every heartbeat, why not move onto the next step every heartbeat, and only reset when necessary (on stagnation)?

    Comment by fahadsadah — February 21, 2010 @ 11:23 am

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