Biomedical Engineering is nowadays an emergent and rapidly growing knowledge field.
Combining medicine and biology with technology can lead to the creation of lifechanging applications. The Do It Yourself (DIY) community is also taking part in this
area of expertise and several biotechnological open-source projects can be found on the
Internet. This thesis aims to provide a tool to allow even non experimented individuals
to understand what a biomedical device is and how can it be built and has ...
Biomedical Engineering is nowadays an emergent and rapidly growing knowledge field.
Combining medicine and biology with technology can lead to the creation of lifechanging applications. The Do It Yourself (DIY) community is also taking part in this
area of expertise and several biotechnological open-source projects can be found on the
Internet. This thesis aims to provide a tool to allow even non experimented individuals
to understand what a biomedical device is and how can it be built and has been
developed in accordance with the open-source and communal mentality.
This project performs a thorough development of the educational application of the tool.
This tool is a program that facilitates High School teachers to introduce biomedical
engineering and, specifically, biomedical devices to young learners. The project
includes an interactive guide that explains how to connect different biosensors to an
Arduino Uno board, the automatic creation of the code needed for the resulting device
to function and an on-line platform to analyse the data recorded from the sensors stored
in a database.
In order for the project to become a fully functional educational tool, all the interfaces
created are collected into a teaching unit, which is a lesson plan where all the activities
to be performed in the classroom are explained. Its main objective is to provide the
young students an appealing and interactive project proposal.
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