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Build Your Own ECG
Jason writes "I finally finished documenting my $4 home made electrocardiograph (heart monitor). If anyone is interested or wants to build one for themselves, please come by and take a look. Makes me wonder why medical care costs so much. :)"
...please come by and take a look.
Translation:
Please slashdot me and don't even peek... :-)
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This could make a great gnome toolbar applet. Then I could enjoy watching my heart race when I accidently type 'rm -rf *' in the wrong directory!
when you can tell me how to build one of 'dem four dollar defibrillators. With my steady diet of coffee, butter and bacon, heck, that thing would pay for itself.
And to think that today I used $4 to buy two Nacho Cheese Steak Chalupas at Taco Bell. While you were out trying to save your heart, I was slowly beating it into submission with slightly substandard but confusingly delicious Fast Food(TM).
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
I finally finished documenting my $4 home made electrocardiograph (heart monitor).
From the website:
Here you will find information how how to build one with less than $10 in parts.
Lies damned lies!
Bored with karma, be a fan/freak
His vital are dropping, maybe he should have looked into monitoring his school's server.
- clear -
Beep beep...beep beep...beep beep
-Mr. Fusion
Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep... Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.......
0110100100100000011000010110110100100000011000100
---^v---^v---^v-------
Eeep...eep...eep..eeeeeeeeeeee
time of death 927PM CST.
Damnit jim I'm a doctor not a webserver admin..
Partnership for an idiot free America!
Umm, people pay for VB?
What are you going to tell me next, people buy Windows? ahahaha
That's the sound of yet another web server flatlining.
BTW the only lame thing around here is your bloody "lameness" filters! How in hell else can I simulate a flatline in text without using repetition?
You're using her as bait, Master!
How to build an ECG for $4:
parts list:
* one surplus patient cable with sensor and plug ($4 on ebay)
instructions:
* Plug the sensor into a strip chart recordor or heart monitor you might have lying around the house. For instance I found and old Hewlett-Packard model 78534C EKG and dual-channel pressure monitor.
You're done! It's THAT EASY! And just FOUR BUCKS!
Tune in next week when I tell you how to build your own x-ray machine for the cost of some X-ray film (you might need to find some medical equipment you might have laying around the house to complete the project).
From the article:
"but don't come crying to me if you find yourself dead."
You also see dead people?
I'm going to spring for the $30 ECG.
I learned my lesson with the $4 dentistry set, and even worse, the $4 electroshock therapy machine.
I STILL can't quite get my hair to stop standing on end. I can't even wear hats - hair pokes through like skewers through butter (which, incidentally, is one of the only things I can eat now thanks to the dentistry set).
I thank the lord I didn't invest in the $4 eye-surgery kit.
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
Speaking of medical safety...did anyone notice that this device is running under Windows? I don't know about you, but I'd never hook anything running Windows up to my body.
IAAL
But wait, I hear you say, nobody is anywhere near replacing programmers with software - but you think you are going to replace cardiologists?)
Yeah, first we'd have to program a computer to be arrogant and have a God complex...
Just because it CAN be done, doesn't mean it should!
If you try this at home, please document your efforts at this site.