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Loading ...Check out this really compact electrocardiogram that someone made from a really tiny LCD, a pair of electrodes, and an ARM training unit. Its an STM32 Primer at the heart of the unit.
All you have to do is press your thumbs on the two electrodes and it will start the ECG trace. Then it will beep when it detects the pulse and will display the heart rate in decimal format in the upper left hand corner.
These things, if mass produced, and if proven accurate enough, could be very useful in the field, although they already have fairly portable, highly accurate ECGs for field personnel, so its allocated to just a fun toy. In case you got it in your head that making your own would be cool, those ARM development boards aren’t cheap, cheapest one I could find was on Ebay and cost $225, but it did come with a 3.5” LCD and the board.
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This looks like fun. How big is the application code?
If you only need debug up to 32K of code, you can find the STM32 Primer much cheaper. Checking around I found it was available at a number of electronics distributors (Arrow, Future, Mouser) for around $35-$50.
On the other hand (and I’m not sure if it is the case with this application), if you need to debug code in excess of 32K, you have to get an unlimited version of the primer… the only place I have found that is at the site http://www.stm32circle.com.
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