[Noisebridge-discuss] medical technology to hack
Praveen Sinha
dmhomee at gmail.com
Fri Dec 26 19:01:02 UTC 2008
You are amazing Daniela!!!!! Definately owe you dinner/beer when you get back!
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 10:44 AM, daniela Steinsapir
<danielast at gmail.com> wrote:
> I went and there are not a lot of small used stuff, I got one
> oximeter, some tubing ( ad for oxygen storage I think) , ultrasound
> sensor, radiation laser that looked cool, but there is none EGG
> things or microscopes. Sorry! Mother boards, video imagery boards for
> old machines and old medical machine keyboards were all around.
>
> The good thing that there are quite a few of old ultrasound imagery machines
> ( for ecographys) available for me to take, the only thing is that I
> cannot tell at what level the machine is damaged, so I am waiting for
> an inspection. Will see.. it would be very interesting to work with
> one of those, but I want to know what is working and what is not to
> know if it is worth it to carry around.
>
> I am going to be travelling from now on.
>
> Till then
>
> happy holidays!
>
> D
>
>
>
> On 12/25/08, Praveen Sinha <dmhomee at gmail.com> wrote:
>> zomg I wish I were in town friday so I could go with you!!! :( :(
>> Double plus on the pulse oximeters and EEG stuff... Even basic things
>> like syringes or medical tubing could come in useful for future hacks.
>> The thing about a lot of medical equipment is that you can't
>> nessecarily obtain them through normal vendors because they require
>> doctor/hospital approval before you can purchase it, so it's worth it
>> for even innocous stuff. Also, any medical charts, books, etc may be
>> good schwag :) feel free to call me on my cell phone if you want while
>> you are there!
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Jean Rintoul <jean.rintoul at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > EEG projects are fun. There is also this thing which looks pretty
>> > interesting if a second hand or other EEG could not be found:
>> >
>> > http://openeeg.sourceforge.net/doc/
>> >
>> > I don't know if anyone has tried it already?
>> >
>> > Also, GSR sensors, and pulse oximeters are small and would be cool to play
>> > with if any were hanging around.
>> >
>> > Jean
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Al Billings <albill at arcanology.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I've wanted to work on EEG projects before though all of the existing
>> >> plans seem to be years out of date.
>> >>
>> >> On 12/24/08 12:53 PM, Jonathan Foote wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> EEGs/EKGs are fun to play with.
>> >>>
>> >>> Peristaltic pumps are good for drink robots or beverage delivery.
>> >>>
>> >>> An ultrasonic imager would be rad but likely falls in the "large
>> >>> equipments" category.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:17 PM, daniela Steinsapir
>> >>> <danielast at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>
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