Arduino sample: Heartbeat

I’ve written a small sketch for Arduino to make a led blink with a function that resembles a human heartbeat. 

On [1] Stevens and Lakin describe a detailed mathematical analysis of the signal of the cardiac pulse. 

I’ve taken one of their equations that close to the cardiac pulse and generated a lookup table for the luminosity value.

  f(x)=(sin(x)^13) * cos(x-PI/10)

  check the function graphed on Google 

Check the code at Github.

[1] Stevens, Scott; Lakin, William. A Differentiable, Periodic Function for Pulsatile Cardiac 

    Output Based on Heart Rate and Stroke Volume

    http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/stevens/Publications/paper3.pdf

 

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