Week 7

The muscle sensor arrived in the mail finally and im having second thoughts on implementing it into my game since the heart rate sensor isnt working perfectly yet. I still have to redesign the map to make it a lot more visually immersive as well as adding audio etc.

The muscle sensor requires sodering and lots of debugging as shown here


The module needs 3 sodered wires on 1 end to connect with the arduino, not sure if i have enough time to do that and test to see if it works perfectly


The module also needs these electrode pads to work properly. These werent cheap too
Basically how it works is you place these on an arm on top of where a major muscle would be and the black wire with another electrode on an area outside of them muscle. It detects changes through the differences between the 2 areas and reports with numbered values. 

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