Linux Powered Stethoscope!

Posted December 27, 2007

Did you ever think of how powerful Linux could be? In your daily lives? Yes? No?

Well, going one step farther than most students, [Rhythm Reloaded], four engineering students at Calvin College are designing an electronic stethoscope that will:

  • Record high-quality audio data from a patient’s body
  • Store this audio data in a convenient format
  • Use a USB interface to transfer the audio files to a computer
  • Reduce the amount of ambient noise that a doctor hears
  • Be simple, accurate, and easy to use!

(source:RhythmReloaded)

    The operating system of choice for the project is µClinux, a very small open source Linux operating system that will run from flash memory! Check out the really cool screenshots of the project and the kernel compiled here: Project page

    For those who don’t know much about the OS, µClinux includes kernel releases for 2.6 as well as user applications, libraries and tool chains. To learn more about µClinux and to see whether you can use it in an application somewhere ;) check it out at µClinux.

    Edit: I have been informed (via email by David of Rhythm Reloaded) that uClinux also has kernel releases for 2.4 (which they are currently using) and 2.0.

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    9 Comments so far

    1. David on January 3rd, 2008

      Thanks for the link, we appreciate it :-).

      Just a note: uClinux also has kernel releases for 2.4 (which we are currently using), and 2.0. Also, it’s good journalistic practice to cite when you quote directly from another source, as is the case with our bullet list… no worries though.

      Glad you like the screens.

    2. Linuxophile on January 3rd, 2008

      Thanks a lot for the comments and the tip, David! Have made the necessary corrections :)

    3. AlexM on August 17th, 2008

      Your blog is interesting!

      Keep up the good work!

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