irst thing to come up. And why not? I think it is often the thing we are most aware of changing when we get excited, nervous, are being active, or very calm. There are several ways of sensing heart rate that dont require lots of heavy equipment and electrodes taped to you. A lot of work has been done on wrist worn IR based sensing, but it tends to be error prone, especially with movement. Currently, the best available method at a reasonable price seems to come from the company Polar. And, what makes it better is that Sparkfun in conjunction with danjuliodesigns, created a microcontroller compatible receiver for the polar monitors. So let’s take a look at using the Polar Heart Rate Monitor Interface and getting it running with your arduino.