Nine year old Arnav Sharma is the 2016 Tech4Good Winner of Winners and the holder of the People’s Award following a ceremony at the BT Centre. He won the prizes for his AsthmaPi Kit, a device to help parents of asthma…
Category: Medical
Track your weight with this set of scales that uses a Raspberry Pi and a Wii Balance Board
Jamie Bailey from Initial State (a brilliant IoT API website) has been in touch again. This time, he’s published a really fun tutorial in which you create a set of scales from a Wii Balance Board and hook it up to…
Artificial pancreas for diabetics run by a Raspberry Pi
This blew me away when I read it. Seattle-based Dana Lewis suffers from Type 1 Diabetes, and has done since she was 14. One of the issues facing diabetics is that during the night, despite having all kinds of different…
Mental health patient tracking with the Raspberry Pi
Canadian Bell Eapen has decided to leverage the inherent cheapness of the Raspberry Pi and the coolness of Bluetooth beacons to set-up a tracking facility for patients in mental health institutions. It’s just an idea at the moment, but he…
Eye-controlled wheelchair uses Raspberry Pi 2
Myrijam Stoetzer (14) and Paul Foltin (15) from Duisburg, Germany wanted to create a system whereby a wheelchair could be controlled by tracking eye movements. The eye tracker is made from a webcam mounted in the frames of some safety glasses. They use…
Robotic otter used for emotional therapy has Raspberry Pi as a heart
Students on an MIT Product Engineering Processes course in 2013 decided to build a product to help patients suffering from anxiety and depression as a result of dementia. It’s a cute baby otter called Ollie who responds to touches from the…
Raspberry Pi controlled syringe pump
In both science and medicine, there is a requirement for dispensing drugs and other liquids in controlled measurements, or doses. This requirement is usually satisfied by a syringe pump. The Raspberry Pi Foundation has blogged about a Raspberry Pi-powered pump…