I find your idea about Open Sensors very nice and hope you (and other) will contribute meterial very soon. I had a similar idea, to make a blog for collecting all medical and health related projects that are based on open hardware and specifically Arduino. My question is if you would like to share some of the material you got and your own creations (e.g., the EEG electrode). The blog is at medicarduino(dot)wordpress(dot)com Thanks!--Anonymous
Hi Charalampos,
Thanks for reaching out! The OpenSensors Project is growing behind the scenes. The goals of the project are to develop biomedical sensors using open source tools and to make them available for third world countries and the open source community. To implement devices at the clinical level requires a very high set of standards for validation and peer-review. Though this process is much slower, the integrity and impact of each sensor is much higher. Consequently, I cannot release any sensor schematic or code until it has passed at least one round of review and validation. However, I imagine that some material will have met this criteria and be made available, along with the raw validation data, near the fall of 2011.
As the project grows, I encourage you and your colleagues to take part in the design and validation process.
Cheers,
Dave Deriso
PS. I have to say, I loved your article on Open PCR. Keep up the great work!
