Biosensor Array

Due date

The completed project with all of its documentation must be submitted no later than Friday, 13 May 2011. The "award" ceremony will be at the Maker Faire San Mateo on the weekend of 21 May 2011.

Concept

Mitch Altman proposed a Global Hackerspace Challenge and PS:One accepted. We proposed the construction of an array of biosensors which could be used in a secondary school or college setting as an educational and experimental tool. The array will collect data from various sensors attached to the test subject's body and then make that data available to the experimenter. The project will use as many COTS parts as possible. The terms of the Challenge require that it use a microcontroller and a "portable power source".

The full description of the Challenge is at Global Hackerspace Challenge.

Members Involved

As of 15 Mar 2011:

• Bill Mania
• Avner Shanan
• Shawn Blaszak
• Philip Strong
• Eric Hanley
• Drew Fustini
• Bill Kukowski
• Leroy

Sensors and their Project Leaders

This list contains the proposed sensors, in order of decreasing priority. For each sensor, the persons leading the R and D are listed.

1. Body temperature - Phill, Shawn
2. oxygen saturation and heartrate - Phill
3. galvanic skin response - Phill
4. respiration frequency, volume and carbon dioxide output - Bill
5. ECG and EMG - Shawn, Avner
6. EEG Avner

The project must also include the following components:

• microcontroller - Eric, Phill
• data visualization design - Eric
• mobile device interface - Bill

Notes

There is useful information available from the Open ECG and Open EEG projects.

ECG

OpenECG: http://www.open-ecg-project.org
Wireless ECG: http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/bionb440/FinalProjects/f2005/kwj5/index.html

EEG

OpenEEG: http://openeeg.sourceforge.net/doc/