Have Biosensor, Will Liberate Data
OpenYou project hacking with mass-market heart rate monitors and other biosensors can improve medical care in the developing world.
Biohacking
The latest DIY ideas, experiments and demonstrations in health science including at-home diagnostics and healing.
The Secret Life of Disposable Cautery Pens
Disposable medical device’s “Do Not Reuse” warning hides excessive cost and wastefulness.
Farm-Fresh EMG Controller via Air Guitar Hero
The MIT MEDIK project is using the Air Guitar Hero article from MAKE vol. 29 to help develop “agricultural prosthetics” for farmers who have lost limbs.
Make: Talk 005 – Carol Reiley, Surgical Roboticist
Our maker this week is Carol Reiley a surgical roboticist at Intuitive Surgical and the founder of Tinker Belle Labs. Carol’s on the cover of the current issue of MAKE, Volume 29, and is the co-author of two how-to projects in this issue.
Gateways to the Soul — EyeWriter
In 2003, my friend Tony, aka graffiti artist Tempt1, was diagnosed with ALS, a progressive disease that left him almost completely paralyzed except for his eyes. In order to help him continue to make his art, I collaborated with a group of software developers and hardware hackers to create a low-cost, open source, eye-tracking system that would allow Tempt1 and other ALS patients to draw and control a computer using just their eyes.
Meet Carol Reiley
Have you ever made a robot that didn’t work right, at least at first? In hobby robotics this is no big deal, and it still isn’t the end of the world with industrial robots, but with surgical robotics, being one millimeter off can mean life or death — or at least complications. Welcome to Carol Reiley’s world.
Welcome — Experiment on Yourself
History is full of quirky tales of scientists who were first in line to try their own experiments. So are comic books, although super villains are more likely than superheroes to be self-experimenters. When the subject of scientific research becomes the researcher herself, that’s self-experimentation, a gray area in academic science that continues to find strong interest among amateurs.
