Heartbeat is a wearable electronic pendant. The project (Avatar) will be a collection of pendants.

I’m working on some interactive effects and these prototypes are a platform for that. I’m also doing a variety of experiments with materials, construction, optics and other aspects. On the fabrication side I’m using arduino pro minis and a new technique for me called wire wrap (and a bit of soldering). I think this technique is way undervalued and I wouldn’t be surprised if it comes back into fashion.

It’s is a different approach than Firefly wearable which monitored social activity and displayed lights and vignettes reflecting that. Also different than Firefly V2 which adds some gaming aspect but has no color.

Further down you can see a video on the Firefly project. You can see some of the possibilities of interactivity.

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Published on: Oct 19, 2017