Monitor Heart Rate with LED

Visually track the status of your heart rate with LEDs wired in an open-drain circuit.

Become familiar with wiring an LED in an open drain circuit.
Write a LabVIEW program to control an LED.
Modify your LabVIEW program to monitor a Vernier Hand-Grip Heart Rate sensor and turn on an LED when a heartbeat occurs.

Download the instructions and program components to perform this project.

Select the equipment you want to purchase for this project.

	Order Code	Price
Interfaces
Vernier SensorDAQ	SDAQ	$189	Select
Sensors
Hand-Grip Heart Rate Monitor	HGH-BTA	$119	Select
Software
LabVIEW	LabVIEW (1 User License) For U.S. high schools only	$100	Select
	LabVIEW (25 User License) For U.S. high schools only	$1500	Select
Other
LED 150-500 ohm resistor

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