At the recent PAX East conference here in Boston, I happened to have three Open Heart kits in my backpack and an Arduino. It hit me suddenly that this should be quickly turned into a life meter. I already had code to run three hearts simultaneously, you can see the post here. So it was a matter of just doing the animation.
With a bit of tape and about 20 minutes, I was able to get it up and running as you see above. You can check out the code here. I’ve also updated the Open Heart build instructions for the v2.0 kit. The next step is to make it play some music, and take input.
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I think it was great that you made these because they came in handy for my Link costume at Penguicon
That was so amazingly awesome. I’m glad it worked out!
Did you get it working with your QuahogCon badge?
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No, the badge state kept changing so quickly, and then the life meter didn’t really work for the game. So I lost motivation to do it.