[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 plans seem to be years out of date.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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