Flappy Heartbeat

Inspiration

One of our teammates had a heart beat sensor and we thought how to implement it into a game!

What it does

A flappy-bird like game, try to survive!

How we built it

We used Arduino and a heartbeat sensor for the hardware. For the visualizations, we coded with Processing.

Challenges we ran into

Trying to change and tweak the heartbeat graph to be more "zoomed in". Since Processing takes the output from Arduino and graphs it, we encountered trouble while tweaking & optimizing the values.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

That we got the heartbeat sensor working and accomplishing the character collisions.

What we learned

We learned about how the heartbeat sensor works and how it is able to display visual data. We also learned how to get input from the Arduino.

What's next for Flappy Heartbeat

To perhaps implement it for Android as some Samsung phones have a similar heartbeat sensor, ex. Samsung Galaxy 6. We also were thinking about what/how to implement other game elements to encourage the user's heartbeat to fluctuate. (making the game harder at certain points)

Built With

• arduino
• processing