I know that NASA was doing some research on using the tympanic membrane to measure intercranial pressure. Ask around, please, and find out if anyone has considered that application. We really do need a better way to detect cerebrospinal leak (CSF Leaks). A CSF Leak was a significant contribution to my late wife's death.
Nonetheless open-source ear buds is a big need for the engineering and hacker community.
My first project would be exercise monitoring. You can measure heart rate, blood oxygen levels, and body temperature in one place.
I would then add something fun like comparing beats per minute of the music to heart rate.
I like the creators' suggestion of using the shape of the ear canal for authentication, I bet that's harder to steal off a video recording than fingerprints or a retinal pattern.
I'd also use this for voiceless speech, as the creators suggest.
I could think of more, but I won't be able to afford the dev kit, sadly.
Regarding the IMU, it mentioned the MM-FIT for workouts, but I checked the code and it's not used at all, no?
Good job, awesome product :-)
I have previously purchased and written[1] about the Tympan.org open source hardware hearing aid[2], but it's about $300 which I can reasonably purchase.
If this comes down in price, I'd love to build some neat things with this hardware.
[1] https://www.scannedinavian.com/open-source-hardware-hearing-... [2] https://shop.tympan.org/collections/all
victorbjorklund•9mo ago