Update

It's been a bit quite here the last time, sorry for that. In the last few weeks we were busy perfecting the sensors. Especially Ronald and Erwin were working on this. Erwin is focussing on the temperature sensor. He has ordered a new one, which wasn’t as accurate as we had hoped, so he had to order yet an other new one. Right now he is calibrating it for our propose. Ronald is working with Dennis (from the Swimsor) to figure out a device called the DSP. This device is meant to stabilise the breath sensor results. Right now the readings change radically when you move, causing a very imperfect and unreliable result. In the mean time Henk and I both designed a G.U.I. for the D.P.A. (Digital Personal Assistant, also know as the ‘iPod application’). We made it into a little competition between us, so we would have a bit of a challenge to get the best possible result. This week we’ll see the result of that. Also we’re looking into carbon fibre pads. We have a sheet of very flexible carbon fibre, and the aim is to use that as the heart sensor. The original heart sensor was dismantled to see how it ticks, and thanks to that info we’ll now evolve that into our own carbon fibre heart sensor design. We’re still working on that as I type this.

This period has about 4-5 weeks to go till the end, and the temperature and heart sensor will probably be finished by then. The breath sensor might be a different story because of the complexity of the DSP.