PSP Heart Rate Monitor V1

[Art]

Hi Guys,
This is the first release of my PSP Heart Rate Monitor! :)

YouTube Video (note my activity in the PSP screen reflection):
http://www.youtube.com/v/YXMd_nauh4Y

As you probably guessed this needs a bit of a hardware hack to get it working,
but for anyone who can solder, it's a snap. Just a coil of
copper wire connected across the PSP microphone input becomes
the antenna for a wireless chest transmitter.
The coil must be so close to the transmitter that it's
"virtually wired" now.

Don't expect too much of a graphic display from the app!
It's still debug screen at the moment.
Enjoy :)
Art.

DIGG THIS (http://digg.com/gaming_news/PSP_Heart_Rate_Monitor)

http://digg.com/gaming_news/PSP_Heart_Rate_Monitor

Backup Download Sendspace:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/8tb2p0

More Photos:

http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/Hardwarenmonitor.JPG
http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/Chest_Transmitter.JPG
http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/Screenshotmonitor.JPG

[domthegod]

u and tht cat get along dont you ;)

[Reficul]

this is pretty awesome.....!

[mcdougall57]

cool!!

[stevo11185]

You are sexy

[mike_jmg]

WTF?
Now I've seen everything

Question: What cant we do with a psp?

[philage]

And the award for the most original homebrew ever goes to ...... :p

Seriously, you could probaly sell these to the NHS and make a fortune, portable heart monitors probaly cost about 50 grand or something ;)

Awsome work.

[acn010]

lmao!!!!!
wow... now thats sexy and unexpected!!!!!
good job!!!!

[DPyro]

I was expecting you to hook it up to the cat....:p

[acn010]

what else???
what else can be possible???

[DKing]

Seriously, you could probaly sell these to the NHS and make a fortune, portable heart monitors probaly cost about 50 grand or something ;)

lol no they don't. I picked up a Edge 305 (https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=331) recently and it was nowhere close to 50,000

[kjetil1991]

smart app indeed =)

[JPJunkie]

Wow how very useful

[Airdevil]

lol! I bet the only reason why he made this program was to show off his biceps to the online public lmao.


...Nice work anyway lol

[drEDN4wt]

What I was pondering over was how to get my psp to work on my bicycle to interface with my wheel and pedal speed sensors,

and how to use the psp as a car rev counter or digital speedo :rolleyes:

[Art]

lol! I bet the only reason why he made this program was to show off his biceps to the online public lmao.


...Nice work anyway lol

Then there would be no need to stuff around with a PSP,
I could just do this! :D
Art.

ps. I'm nowhere near that big now :(

[DarthPaul]

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[Psyberjock]

http://www.jobblog.ch/uploads/gilettefusionpower.jpg

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!! Oh my god!! That's hilarious! I have seriously been laughing for the last 3 1/2 minutes!

Maybe the best reply I've ever seen.

Oh, btw, here's a picture of me:

http://imgbolt.com/public/17628/Bodybuildingme.jpg

Oh yeah! I know you're jealous Art!

And I AM still this big!

[Gizmo356]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!! Oh my god!! That's hilarious! I have seriously been laughing for the last 3 1/2 minutes!

Maybe the best reply I've ever seen.

Oh, btw, here's a picture of me:

http://imgbolt.com/public/17628/Bodybuildingme.jpg

Oh yeah! I know you're jealous Art!

And I AM still this big!

I bet this will make you more defined.

http://img.alibaba.com/photo/11045977/Johnson___Johnson_Baby_Oil.jpg

[Art]

Lol, I never got to shaving my chest. no thanks!
but the facial hair is gone now.

back on track, I can see this going into the Time Baby program
once I'm satisfied with it.

The current debug screen app can become the sensor test program.

[jaws365]

That´s one piece of crazy homebrew. You should get some kind of award :)

[Murdock]

hey Art, the idea of this app is great ... I mean u wanna add more stuff like an interface or sth., right? But how about leaving this "basic" screen and making a PRX out of it so u'll have a Plug-In for the XMB? I mean that'd be kinda funny ... having a lill heart at the lower left corner, telling u sth. about ur pulse, etc. ... maybe u leave sound in or u kame it possible to switch it on/off ... so if a nice woman walks by ... beep ......... beep ........ beep ..... beep ..... beep ... beep ... beep . beep . beep . beep . beep . beep beepbeepbeepbeep :rofl: :thumbup:

realy cool thing!

[Psyberjock]

Lol, I never got to shaving my chest. no thanks!
but the facial hair is gone now.

back on track, I can see this going into the Time Baby program
once I'm satisfied with it.

The current debug screen app can become the sensor test program.

I think its a good idea to add it to Time Baby. You already have it set up for hiking and other outdoor activities.

Also, I think it would be a good idea to make it into an exercising/jogging program. Sure the PSP is a little big to be hauling around, but it might be worth it if it could track your heart rate over the course of your jog and make graphs and such. You could possibly even get it to interface with MapThis! and you could plot on a map where your heart rate increases and decreases, while tracking with the USB GPS. Just sew a small hip pack type case with a soft clear plastic window and allow for the GPS to point towards the sky (maybe on your back). That is something that people might pay a lot of money to do with a standalone item that you could do rather cheaply with a PSP.

Just an idea. I kinda wish I had one of those heart rate things you have. Looks fun. How much are those?

[Art]

^^ Sounds like you've been keeping up with my stuff.
The Sunset time monitor feature in Time Baby, and a speaking heart rate monitor are two things
I want to happen at the same time while I'm climbing a mountain. Then also the mp3 player I suppose.

Other than for testing (where I have a bit of fun),
I can't justify running this on a PSP by itself, when I'd rather be running one of the Time Baby features.
But if it can run at the same time then definately yes.

I don't think you can really buy the adapter, only make it.
The easiest way I can think of getting a pre wound coil is by destroying a small speaker out of a transistor radio.
Which is why I don't see an XMB prx out of it.

I'd love it if someone commercialy produced this for the PSP:
http://rick.mollprojects.com/hrm/index.html
Then it would be wireless again.
I could locate the Maxim component and make one,
but it doesn't exactly help anyone else.

Here is version 2 of the program which has super high
resolution beats per minute display.
I would have really loved this when I was training,
and then I didn't own a HRM :(

I might get to producing a few sensors and flogging them off on eBay
when the program is better developed.

[Safari Al]

^really amazing that you can make a barcode scanner and this for the psp. I just could never see myself doing anything remotely close to that

[JPJunkie]

^really amazing that you can make a barcode scanner and this for the psp. I just could never see myself doing anything remotely close to that

Thats because your human:D

[parkermauney]

lol
I wonder if anyone's used it yet?

[burrito]

lol a big muscular guy was petting a cat the whole time :p

[kiore]

how about a few screen shots

[Art]

Wasn't YouTube vid a few hundred screenshots?

The new graphic version is almost ready, so there's no
real reason to continue witht he debug screen app.