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!

Sean writes in about his 16 x 16 Game of Life!

Team Adafruit, here’s a 4 board x 4 board game of life array I built over the last few weeks.  Thanks for the boards and projects!

Nice! Game of Life kit building party.

caboteria writes-

I had been looking for an excuse to get something from ponoko.com so I made a bezel for my 2×2 matrix of game of life boards. It came out pretty well for a first effort and I’m pretty pleased with it (if I do say so myself). If anyone is interested in making one let me know and I’ll send you the svg file. I made mine from the 0.12 clear acrylic but it doesn’t need to be that thick – if I were doing it again I think I’d use the 0.08 clear.