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Cat Links Medical Gear, Teardown

Contec CMS-50F Pulse Oximeter Teardown

Posted on January 1, 2018December 20, 2017 The Engineer

The rear has the specifications, laser-marked into the plastic. The serial numbers are just sticky labels though, and will come off easily with use. This is the Contec CMS-50F wrist-mounted pulse oximeter unit, which has the capability to record data continuously to onboard memory, to be read out at a

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Cat Links Hacks, Personal Project, Randoms, RasPi

3M Microtouch 17″ Raspberry Pi Touch PC

Posted on October 1, 2015 The Engineer

A while back I posted about a 3M Touch Systems industrial monitor that I’d been given. I had previously paired it with a Raspberry Pi Model B+, but for general desktop use it was just a little on the slow side. Since the release of the Raspberry Pi 2, with

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Cat Links Hacks, Personal Project, RasPi

Raspberry Pi Geiger Counter

Posted on May 20, 2013 The Engineer

Here’s my latest project with the Pi: interfacing it with the Sparkfun Geiger counter & outputting the resulting data to a character LCD. The geiger counter is interfaced with it’s USB port, with the random number generator firmware. A Python script reads from the serial port & every minute outputs

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