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

Revision as of 22:28, 21 March 2011

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Key Dates

  • Week of 3/21 : Official Challenge Briefing / Q+A
  • 3/25: Deadline to create your profile and submit your first blog update
  • 4/1: Deadline for Hackerspace Challenge Blog Post 2
  • 4/15: Deadline for Hackerspace Challenge Blog Post 3
  • 4/30: End of build time
  • 05/01- 05/05: Judging period
  • 05/06: 3 semi-finalists will be announced
  • Week Of 5/16: One team member from each of the three semi-finalist hackerspaces will travel to San Francisco Bay Area
  • 5/21/22: Maker Faire
  • 5/22: Maker Faire Great Global Hackerspace Challenge Grand Finale
  • 5/23: Team members travel home

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:

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, (Drew - if additional help is needed)
  • data visualization design - Eric
  • mobile device interface - Bill

Notes

Sensors

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/

Members

Bill Mania

For my part, I've been re-building my development environment for Python and Qt on the Nokia N900 mobile device. I've also been reading through "Building wireless sensor networks" by Robert Faludi, to get an idea of the wireless options available to us.

Drew Fustini

  • Will be setting up dev environment for N900 along with Bill & started reviewing the wireless sensor book as well.
  • I wasn't able to attend the first group discussion but plan to be at the space for discussion after the Mar-22 weekly meeting. I'd like to talk with Eric & Phil about the microcontroller selection as I'm interested in that as well as the mobile aspect.
  • I'm fustini on element14 Community - add me as a contact if you'd like after creating a profile; I'm very familiar with the site so please let me know if anyone has questions