Embedded Linux On a Digital Stethoscope

An anonymous reader writes "A team of electrical and computer engineering students at Calvin College is designing a digital electronic stethoscope running uClinux as its operating system. While there are many embedded devices built on Linux operating systems, medical devices running open-source software are extremely rare because of the perceived difficulty in obtaining FDA validation. The device is in its early stages of development, but major hardware choices have been made, and the team has recently released a Project Proposal and Feasibility Study."

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Re:this linux crazyness...

[dangitman]

No. There was a project to port Linux to the spoon, but there was a lot of infighting about future directions and major members left, so the project was effectively shelved.

You are wrong about this one. The spoon project still exists. It just got sporked.