Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
Why is it awesome?
We decided to write this project based on the personal experience of one of the authors'
family member. It is quite stressful for a person when he/she is diagnosed with a chronic
condiions such as type 2 diabetes. The person is subjected to stressful condiions related to
change in daily food habits, developing a habit of consuming medicaion every day, and being
mindful of what he/she eats every day whilst ensuring that their criical health parameters
are intact. It is obviously difficult to accept a sudden change, and this project presents some
opions to miigate such diiculies and bring the person's health back on track.
Your Hotshot objectives
In this project, we will review the following examples:
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Seing up a web server to record health parameters
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A simple physical exercise tool using Raspberry Pi
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Seing up an e-mail feed parser to reill a prescripion as well as remind the user
about an upcoming doctor's appointment
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A simple tool that reminds a person to take his/her pills
Mission checklist
It would be great to have the following components for this project:
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A Raspberry Pi along with an SD card (of at least 4GB in size) that has been flashed
with an image and requisite power cable.
arduinoBoardEth
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). This is completely opional.
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A tacile switch, resistors (10 K), and a piezoelectric buzzer (all these components
are available from Radio Shack).
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It would be great to have two Raspberry Pi boards to build the physical exercise tool
using Raspberry Pi.
Setting up a web server to record
health parameters
In this task, we will build a simple web server that can be used to maintain criical health
parameters. Let's consider a scenario where a person is diagnosed with high blood pressure.
The doctor asks the paient to record his/her vital health parameters such as pulse, oxygen
level, or blood pressure. For this situaion, we will build a simple web page that records the
data and stores it in a
CSV
file.
