DIY pulse oximeter
This pulse oximeter turned out very nicely. It is based around a Freescale microcontroller and detects pulse as well as oxygen saturation in your blood. The sensor is made of two wood pieces and...
View ArticleHackaday Prize Entry: Online Bone Marrow Cytometry Aid
Simple blood tests can lead a doctor toward a diagnosis of blood cancers, like leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma, but to really see what’s going on, he or she needs to go to the source of the problem: the...
View ArticleMorbid Battery Uses Blood Electrolyte
Building a battery out of common household products is actually pretty simple. All that is required is two dissimilar metals and some sort of electrolyte to facility the transfer of charge. A popular...
View ArticleAutomate the Freight: Medical Deliveries by Drone
Being a cop’s kid leaves you with a lot of vivid memories. My dad was a Connecticut State Trooper for over twenty years, and because of the small size of the state, he was essentially on duty at all...
View ArticleSurgery Robot is a Real Cut Up
A robot that performs surgery is a serious thing. One bug in the control system could end with disaster. Unless of course, you’re [Michael Reeves], in which case disaster is all part of the fun....
View ArticleBlu-ray Microscope Uses Blood Cells As Lenses
When you think of high-throughput ptychographic cytometry (wait, you do think about high throughput ptychographic cytometry, right?) does it bring to mind something you can hack together from an old...
View ArticleThe Blood Factory: New Research May Open the Door to Artificial Blood
There were news stories afoot this week with somewhat breathless headlines that suggested a medical breakthrough was at hand: “In a 1st, two people receive transfusions of lab-grown blood cells.” A...
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