DIY ECG with AD8232 and Sound Card

[@mahbuburrahmanrahman2677]

This Is Mahbubur Rahman From Bangladesh, My heartiest wishes to you and family, You are big hearted man. Also Pray to Allah S.W.T for your complete cure, grace and bless. Also thanks for your important video and sharing all of these.

[@gfabasic32]

Thanks for your videos. I stumbled on your site looking for AUDIO info. and got more of a dramatic human interest story than I was expecting! (In a good way!) I see you're alive and kicking with a PHD! Way to give cancer a swift kick to the curb and come out stronger! You've shown incredible strength and resilience.

[@Larry_Druhall]

The health issues are extremely surprising and saddening. As an engineer/programmer, I decided to send you an email with a proposal for a joint project, along with some information that surprised me, but helped me to regain my health. May you be happy and healthy.

[@Phantom-mk4kp]

Wishing you the best of luck. It's great to see you are not letting it stop your normal life. Great attitude that can only help

[@kesh2032]

You are an inspiration man

[@rameshd5563]

It's been a long time since the days of the 741 Opamp ECG. I did construct one at that time and played around with it. MOnths and years later, after the cheap AD8232 came out, I was thinking "Why doesn't Scott Harden use it and make a nice ECG device". Then I forgot about it. Lately I was investigating the ECG devices using the MAX30xxx ICs and searched for Scott Harden and found that he has already made a video with using AD8232! You make it so easy to understand your projects, so anybody could implement it, and you explain it so clearly. Anyway, just read about your medical treatment, and hopefully you are doing much much better these days. Wish you all the best with a speedy recovery and Great health. Looking forward to more interesting projects from you.

[@swharden]

I'm happy to report my medical situation is looking good, and I'm working on a new project again which I hope to post shortly. Thank you for your kind wishes!

[@sorongana5346]

Keep it up pa, keep making videos because new generations of computer technicians are coming up.

[@pj3ns3n_]

Hi Scott I just made one of these. I used your program to display the results and as you say it was very noisy with mains interference. I also had to earth my left hand by holding a usb lead outer case. I am using a 3v button cell for power which works well. I tried using Audacity for the recording which also works well. Then used the Notch filter setting on Audacity at 50Hz UK, and it cleaned up a treat. Thanks for the vid.

[@swharden]

I'm glad you got it working! That's good advice about Audacity's notch filter. If you continue to have mains noise, double-check the quality of your pads, the connection between the pads and the AD8232, and the quality of the connection of the headphone cable connecting the AD8232 to your computer sound card (all of these connections are susceptible to picking up mains noise). Congratulations on getting this project up and running for yourself!

[@pj3ns3n_]

Takes me back to 1986 when I made a 741 op amp version and used a BBC micro analogue input to read the results. I wrote a program to graph it but this is easier. Thanks for the advice on the pads. When I made the 741 version I just had 2 hand held copper tubes as sensors. Pete

[@petersmith1123]

Scott I've been following your ECG projects for years...you are top bloke! Always a happy face. Wish you all the best...from Melbourne, Australia.

[@Dr.SanjeevSaxena]

Dear. Hope you are doing well, now. My heartiest wishes to you and family

[@robertlongoria765]

Thank you for making this tech so approachable. I am an old dog and it seems can learn new QRS tricks! Best wishes and prayers for your continued long and useful life.

[@mickstr5295]

Thank you for taking the time to make a very detailed video. Much appreciated.

[@sanchitaghosh2921]

Hey I am b.tech second year student I want to make this project..can u guys pls tell me can i make this with Arduino if not then which thing can i prefer and which language use in this project ??

[@faisaljafar16]

This made me very sad. Wish you all the best for your health.

[@swharden]

Thanks for your best wishes! I recently completed a bone marrow transplant, and so far things are looking pretty good! Fingers-crossed, I hope to put all this medical stuff behind me soon =]

[@magicianofelectronics951]

@@swharden Good

[@NamasenITN]

How are you?

[@rmjormjo]

I reviewed many affordable data acquisition systems on my personal website. But I regularly come back to Scott Hardens Sound Card ECG as one of the best devices. It is alive, it is research grade, it is developed by an experienced biological research scientist, very affordable, and is supported by Scott on his KZbin channel.

[@salemabdesselem692]

Hope you are doing well. We lack your brilliant work since several months ....

[@ven7in]

Hi Scott, Wish you all the best for your health. It's a very interesting project. It's a shame I didn't find the full circuit shown in the video to build it. Thanks for the excellent job. Take care of yourself

[@swharden]

full circuit is linked in the description - health is good! Glad you enjoyed the project =]

[@mrgio1998]

Actually the cardiac conductive system is made of a particular kind of cardiomyocytes with auto-depolarization properties. These cells are called p cells (where p stands for pacemaker) they are not neurons, the morphology is different and they also have different embryological development. The SA node has the highest depolarisation frequency and for this reason is the normal beat generator (sinus rhythm). The cardiac ganglions are actually neural bodies belonging to the cardiac plexus, part of the autonomous nervous system that can modify the heart rate.

[@swharden]

Giovanni Dian this is accurate and a better description of what occurs than the oversimplified explanation in the video! Thanks for sharing this! Curiously, how would you expand your description to include the role of the ICG? I’d love to include your enhanced overview in the video description.

[@mrgio1998]

As you said the ECG machine can capture the electrical impulse during the different phases of the cardiac cycle, resulting in waves (positive or negative depending on the direction of the impulse relative to the electrodes) that at the end show with a graph the heart function. With ECG you can measure simple parameters like the heart rate or diagnose complex situation such as arrhythmias, infarction, cardiac arrest etc etc Knowing the meaning of the single waves you can understand the cause of their alteration and treat the patient consequently. For example if there is a problem in the conductive system (arrhythmia), let’s supposte in the SA node, you will see some variations in the p wave that can be altered or absent and maybe a slower heart rate cause the impulse is starting from the AV node at this point... it’s a complex and fascinating world that can save our lives. I’m surely not the world’s best expert as i am only a med student, I tried to make a understandable simplification. I’m Italian so I am sorry if there are some grammatical/lessical errors.. Anyway, great video! Ciao

[@senalshamika9426]

Hi scott. Thank you very much for your kindness and for the knowledge u r sharing. ❤

[@MrLRankin2]

Keep smiling young man. Stay positive and get well.

[@bob_halford]

You are a good man.... inspiring. All the best with successful treatment. Keep inspiring people....

[@PanosLa]

Hey Scott! Up until an hour ago I had no idea who you are. I followed your tutorial and got some decent results. Just as I was about to come back to you and tell you that recording the ECG as audio requires a DC coupled audio interface (the diagnostic range is 0.5Hz up to 150Hz). Most interfaces have a high pass filter somewhere around 5 or 10Hz. So, I am not sure if diagnostically the result is useful.. but in any way, I realised that this is your last video essentially.. then I looked you up to see how you are doing and for a moment I thought that things turned for the worse. I am sorry that you have relapsed, fortunately I saw your update on your website. I wish you strength mate and I hope you will go through this and come back as winner. Keep fighting the good fight.

[@rmjormjo]

Unfortunately, Harden Technologies Channel Recorders are not commercially available to this date. But I would be an interested customer, when Harden Technologies sells these recorders.

[@swharden]

Good to know! This is actually a real product in development. The hardware is mostly ready, but I've been investing a lot of time to make the software excellent. This has motivated my recent work on the ScottPlot and QuickPlot graphing libraries (both on GitHub)

[@aofddofa6661]

Thank you real PRINCE sharing this brilliant idea.. wish you all the best

[@rmjormjo]

This is a great instruction, and I love it. Has someone a sign of life from Scott Harden?

[@swharden]

Peter Gamma so far so good! My GitHub is the best way to see how active I am ;)

[@rmjormjo]

Happy to hear from you! I ve read your blog about your medical treatements, and I worried since there were no news there anyomore.

[@geeklany]

It's a great project and thanks for sharing it! I wish you the best to get well and be able to put the treatment behind you!

[@benjooo]

Man you are very smart!! :) and you are a hero. greetings from Bosnia.

[@jangAckman]

I hope you get well soon, Scott.

[@JoseGustavoAbreuMurta]

Hi Scott. Yesterday I discovered your youtube channel, your website and your github. Very interesting projects. Congratulations! Really enjoyed! I hope you are well. I wish you a happy new year 2020! (from Brazil)

[@techthamizh2112]

Awesome video, thanks for posting it. Wish you well

[@QuickHits]

I really hope your treatment works out, thanks for the excellent video.

[@awaisahmad5908]

Amazing work You have developed a microcontroller to provide 3.3V to ad8232 and to process and output ECG Signal to serial monitor

[@sultan7679]

thanks for the video scott, hope you're fine, all the best....

[@rayslinky]

Very cool. Thanks for sharing, as always!

[@petergamma741]

I agree with Alex. I m facing currently big problems to get real time data from a sports watch. To get real time data from Scott s sound card ECG is better. For a 24 h 7 d setup a wireless bluetooth low energy transmission would be better than a cable connection. This setup could then be made complete by adding a Bluetooth foot pod, as for instance a Bitalino foot pod which is discussed in the Bitalino forum, to replace the real time problems of sports watches.

[@petergamma741]

A step counter for BeagleBoneBlue in Matlab already exists, but you must install all hardware and software, before all links in Matlab are working: www.mathworks.com/help/supportpkg/beagleboneblue/ref/counting-steps-using-beagleboneblue-hardware-example.html

[@petergamma741]

@Alex. Electronic shock should not be a problem when it is possible to connect the sound card ecg to the new Linux Pinephone, which I already love, although I don t have one yet. It is sold as a device for developers. When it is possible to connect the sound card ECG to the Linux Pinephone and to run Scott s software on the phone, then no wireless is necessary.

[@vawcreations5887]

WOW LOVED IT FROM THE GET GO THANKS SCOTT

[@theGADGETSplaylist]

From your BLOG, I think/hope you're doing better Scott:) Great project you have here. I've ordered a AD8282 with plans to marry it to a HS402 WiFi oscilloscope circuit which will communicate with HScope on Android. Will take weeks to get here so will be a winter project. Take good care:) Denis

[@Sameer2762]

Take very good care of yourself mate, you teach very well. Keep up 👌🏻👍🏻

[@mariomedina1386]

Hey Scott! greatings from LatinAmerica, I just want to thank you for the super easy and super powered explanation :) keep strong!!!! super huges for you :)

[@janmichaelmendoza1979]

Thank you for this. ❤️

[@petergamma741]

An integrated circuit of the Sound Card ECG would also be highly desirable.

[@igb-linvestisseurautodidac6045]

Tu es un bien bel exemple à suivre. Je te souhaite le meilleur.

[@VonDiten]

Great video, I have one of those, I watched my hearbeat with my osciloscope, but, wasn't very practical for a portable object. Anyway great video explaining parts that I didn't know, and of course, best of lucks with your treatment.

[@pabloveliz2319]

Thank you for you video! I hope you get better soon man!!!

[@swharden]

Thanks! I'm happy to report I'm doing well, and I plan to start making follow-up videos soon! Thanks for the good wishes

[@johnhadley1117]

Scott very impressive. You have it goin on :)

[@mecatx]

a great video. I have a few Karda devices A large amd a credit card size/ they use a coin battery to reduce size. also, any ideas on their Elec odes without wires - what to use for DIY. thanks for your great work. I also want to transmit the signal short distances over 433 devices. will try to change the signal with the Arduino plotter readings.

[@juancamiloandrade3083]

Hi Scott. I´m from Colombia, and i'm actually studying Audiovisual Design on Argentina. I am developing, with a partner, an experimental "artistic" project based on the beat rate. Our idea is to create an interactive installation where the beat rate of the users is measured and traduced into digital parameters, that are used afterwards as MIDI parameters to produce and change the sounds, the lights and some other parameters of the installation. The conceptual idea is still on process, but we are starting to approach the technical issues. We have no experience, so we are introducing ourselves in a new whole world of electricity and sensors. We started with Arduino and its small sensor, but the response of the sensor to the heart beats is very poor. We are probably gonna try your way, which seems a nice option. If you have been working on a way to measure and visualice the beat rate, that doesn't requiere this ECG chest connections, we are very interest on it. And we also hope we can make you some technical questions about the structure of the device. This is an academic project, and as I told you, our experience with this areas is null. We are hoping to find someone in Argentina that can help us on the building of your system. Thank you a lot for you contribution. We send you very good energy, and hope your health its ok. and excuse me for my basic english XD

[@swharden]

Hi Juan, this sounds like a really interesting project! Check out the "SparkFun Pulse Oximeter and Heart Rate Sensor" (google and you'll find it). It may let you do something similar without requiring chest leads.

[@rmjormjo]

@@swharden I was also interested in these Pulse Oximeter devices. They are more practical than ECG devices. They can also be used to determine heart rate variblity or respiratory rate estimation in Matlab. But unfortunately I found that the accuracy of low cost Pulse Oximeters is not very high. If you don t care too much about accuracy, then this device is fine. But me personally I came to the conclcusion to use an ECG device for HRV measurements and respiratory rate estimation.

[@UnrealTransformer]

The AD8232 is designed to be powered directly from a single 3 V battery, such as CR2032 type."

[@mattharvey8712]

Bravo.......crazy idea....i would like to synchronize haert beat with music first then Choose a heart rate like running rate ......music is slow but when you reach operating running rate .....the musicis right spead .......and to fast the sound like record going to fast......cheers

[@mumbaiverve2307]

Hi Scott , just a little word of caution. The ground pin of the sound card is probably connected to the mains earth.This could be a source of danger in case of some devices which have a ground fault.Hence it is probably much more safer to use a battery powered laptop. Of course the best would be to use a wireless bluetooth device, i guess. Cheers and hope you are in the best of health !

[@swharden]

Hi @mumbai, I hear this comment frequently. The input impedance between the AD8232 and the pads is extremely high. Even if the AD8232 were grounded (e.g., through the sound card), risk is eliminated because the person is not connected to the AD8232 through a low impedance path, so a ground fault is not a concern. Interestingly, grounding yourself to your computer is common. Many people physically ground themselves to their computer with a wrist strap connected to their computer chassis when they work inside their computer. Since that is a low impedance path to ground, a wrist ground strap strikes me as much more of a concern for ground faults than a setup like this. It's an interesting topic to ponder!

[@mumbaiverve2307]

@@swharden Thanks for the reply. A ground strap has a 1Meg resistance to ground, hence it is not a " low impedance path to ground", quite the opposite actually. Also when working on mains equipment always unplug the device , else/and use suitably rated probes and test equipment. The last thing you want in such circumstances is a "low impedance path to ground" "risk is eliminated because the person is not connected to the AD8232 through a low impedance path" Actually isn't the conductive gel drastically reducing this impedance ? I could not get the circuit diagram of your module, so am not too sure about this. Indeed it is an interesting topic to ponder.

[@mumbaiverve2307]

@@swharden Nice to have your reply, which means you are doing well , I hope !

[@swharden]

@@mumbaiverve2307 Thank you for correcting me! You are right, wrist straps typically have high series resistance and are not low impedance. I definitely overlooked this point when drawing my comparison. Silver chloride gel indeed decreases impedance between the pad and the chest, but if you review the AD8232 datasheet you'll find all leads are connected through high series resistances. I guess ECG circuits like this have high series resistance for the same reason that wrist straps do. In all cases, safety (especially when using mains-connected devices) should be considered. cdn.sparkfun.com/datasheets/Sensors/Biometric/AD8232_Heart_Rate_Monitor_v10.pdf www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/data-sheets/ad8232.pdf

[@mumbaiverve2307]

@@swharden Thanks for the reply and the docs ! Hoping for more videos in future...

[@rmjormjo]

Thank you, and all the best for your health.

[@arthurceci8152]

I've seen those using arduino and the plot looks pretty "spiky" (not as smooth as yours). I wonder that is because of the entire circuit you built or the quality of the eletrodes. Either way, I want to know if I need all of that circuit for it to work like that or simply conecting it on a double end p2 jack hooked to my computer directly. I would like to know if its possible to save the data and plot a static version of the graph as well. Great job!

[@rmjormjo]

This device could also be used to obtain ecg data for respiration rate estimation: ch.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/55289-respiratory-rate-estimation For inner engineers it is difficult to get respiration signals: www.innerengineering.com/ To estimate the respiration rate from ecg data is easier than to obtain respiration signals from respiration sensors.

[@rmjormjo]

Never found real-time software for my Adinstruments channel recorders, my Owon SCPI oscilloscope interface has to be written first and has only 8 bit resolution. Sound cards have 16 bit resolution. You can have 24 bit or 32 usb sound cards. Adinstruments has only 16 bit. For a respiration sensor 16 bit is fine, as I saw in a Adinstruments demonstration from Dr. Evan Matthews . Sound card ecg is the winner :-)

[@stevecarrington8972]

Great stuff, get well soon

[@mdadil9233]

This was awesome... Nice work...

[@filipecosta7952]

Great project. And many thanks to share.. Hope you get better. Regards.

[@hunarahmad]

Thanks for your amazing work

[@petergamma741]

An integrated circuit or a printed circuit board, which only needs a little bit of soldering.

[@luisjuelipe]

KEEP GOING! AWESOME VIDEO, U HELPED ME A LOT

[@mrizwanyounas9407]

The complete way of making that sensor

[@swharden]

link is in the description

[@peternardulli]

I did this without any of the extra capacitors and stuff shown for the QRS circuit and whatnot. I just have the AD8232, a voltage regulator and a battery. My computer isn't picking up the audio jack as a microphone, so I can't display readings, even though before I plug it into my computer the light on the AD8232 flashes with my heart beat, so I know the circuit itself is working. Is there any sort of software or driver I have to download to get the readings onto my computer?

[@rmjormjo]

I asked myself, what is the difference between and Adinstruments channel recorder and a Sound card ECG device? I bought an Adinstruments 8SP for 200 USD on ebay. But for ECG it needs an additional Bioamp, which costs additional 150 USD on ebay. Is the Bioamp equivalent to the ECG breakout board, and the channel recorder equivalent to the rest of Scotts circuit? I asked the Adinstruments support how many EEG channels the Adinstruments 8SP supports, and whether they are validated data available for EEG recordings? No, no validated data available. The 8 SP works for 8 EEG channels, and I would need to buy another Biamp, the Octal, which looks very expensive. Furthermore I would need to upgrade from Labchart 7 (which I don t have) to Labchat 8, since the newer Adinstruments amplifier need Labchart 8. I give up my Adinstruments EEG validation project.

[@waelalshamare393]

I hope you are in good health "amen"

[@jasperhamans5004]

I am a total noob here but I am studying to be a paramedic and I'd like to do this myself. How are the wires connected? Does this need to be welded? Is there a step by step video showing how you actually asembled it?

[@kokoscom]

Nice video.. I hope you are well!!

[@schedarr]

This is amazing video!

[@Bob-Fisher-6120]

Hey Scott! I was wondering if it's possible to hook this breakout board to something like an Arduino nano or Rasp Pi Pico instead?

[@vedantjoshi1487]

Hi! In your project page in Pros and Cons section you have mentioned small currents can kill which is a bigggg statement, can you elaborate on that here, please? Thanks!

[@Accumulator1]

This looks a bit complexed. Is there an EKG app that can be used with the AD8232 input to mic or micro usb input to android smartphone??

[@miguellopes9636]

Great video....keep going man...

[@Suncatcher173]

Hello. Do you know an easier way to monitor the heart beat of a person with only a "beep" without any patch? Maybe via a smart watch?.

[@crnazvijezda]

Thanks! All the best!

[@mohammedahmed7126]

Great video brother

[@georgevendras5450]

Hi there. XXL job, no less!! May I ask if/how could we built an ECG using a couple of BJT? I mean, is there a point to do so or not? And why? Thank you!

[@swharden]

Probably can't do it with 2 BJTs. You can do it with 1 op-amp though kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5fMo4qiqJ6Gr9U

[@georgevendras5450]

@@swharden Might I ask why not? Thank you!

[@crgwfrench]

Thanks Scott, very cool project. What are the grey cylinders in the power supply -- inductors? Ferrite? I assume they're for smoothing/filtering but curious what components you're using. Thanks!

[@renter84]

Hi, I can't find the diagram , only the high resolution image but can't understand well what goes where. Could you at least post more images? Thank you very much.

[@bunny-hu]

Thanks, it was interesting, and get well!

[@dhananjaygupta1505]

great project

[@nsfeliz7825]

😅sorry about your health. buut, i built you gdmaned ecg, it worked. instead of a computer i used a battery powered oscilloscope. its noisy but it worked. now to work on a 60 hz filter.

[@aashraykashyap7146]

Hi Scott ! Nice video. Can you please share the circuit diagram for this project ?

[@swharden]

The website in the description has a diagram for the main project. For the little example at the end of the video I don't think there is a diagram... The circuit is explained in the video though! Good luck!

[@ezramdetele5405]

Software shows output even when no input is applied, do I miss something??

[@collinsobeng8469]

Awww. Sorry about that, hope you are doing better now?

[@seda14us]

Super...100% Best... Thank you.

[@hary79]

Will you please help me to simulate electrocardiogram waveform on keil software... please help me

[@sayanmondal4570]

I'm making this after seeing it previous vid..... I've made upto the signal .. can see the signal on oscilloscope with notch, high pass and low pass filters... I've used a INA128 instru amplifier..... Have to do coding still .. And get well soon 👍

[@swharden]

Sayan Mondal it’s great that you got practice making an ECG with a more advanced circuit! After getting that one to work, this one will seem easy! Thanks for the best wishes

[@aamirali4635]

sir how to generate graph of ecg + how to avoid voices ? ...................cause our project based on ecg to classify patient health plzzz reply

[@swharden]

Ask patient to rest silently while recording ECG

[@batoolzquotes]

thanks. very informative

[@mk93_h]

Hi. I want to display the ECG using AD8232 Sensor on MATLAB through an Audio Jack. Is it Possible to display AD8232 ECG Sensor data through an Audio Jack on MATLAb Software??? Do u have any info on this particular project !!

[@mrinmoysarker9603]

That's obviously possible. It's just an audio input. audioread() function would do that job easily.

[@mk93_h]

@@mrinmoysarker9603 Thanks !

[@ivanirumberry2125]

Great video! Can you upload the diagram circuit with lm324 because i can not find it.Trank you

[@swharden]

Hi Ivan, this video only uses a AD8232, not any discrete op-amps like LM324. Check out kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5fMo4qiqJ6Gr9U for a design like that

[@ivanirumberry2125]

@@swharden Thank you very much for answering, in the video I see that you use a lm324 buffer and an indicator led, what would the circuit be like since I don't know how you did it? thanks

[@swharden]

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[@ivanirumberry2125]

@@swharden Thanks for answering, look, I am asking you, I have to measure the heart rate with a microcontroller. Is there a way to connect a smith trigger comparator to the ad8232 and generate a square wave to measure it more easily? thanks

[@swharden]

@@ivanirumberry2125 I think you are asking about a Schmitt trigger comparator. Yes, this can be done but I do not have an example. This topic is discussed in this video from 12:30 through 15:30

[@andreacarpi2971]

Great video!

[@jozefsoucik3115]

there is most of the arduino with serial adapter integrated...so not complicated so much

[@steven21736]

Could it be possible to make multiple devices and then detect the QT interval in software?

[@gerardorojasvite5057]

I want to thank you for the videos on DIY ECG that you´ve made, they are quite interesting. Could you explain me please how to read data from the jack input in a computer using python? Also, I want to ask you if this principle can be applied to read EEG signals (I mean, using an op amp in the configuration you have shown previously). Best wishes, I hope you will be safe and sound soon!

[@swharden]

For a python version see kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5fMo4qiqJ6Gr9U

[@swharden]

This method could be used to analyze EEG signals, but the amplifier must be more sensitive. Google for the "open EEG project" for more resources.

[@chengL10]

miss your content man! is everything okay?

[@swharden]

Yep, I'm good! Most of my recent work is on github, not my personal site or youtube, but I hope to start making new videos again soon 🤞

[@chengL10]

@@swharden I'm glad that you're okay! :)

[@rmjormjo]

@@swharden Hi Scott, very happy that you are good. Did you think about adding a few words about how you are in the present moment on your page about medical updates? It might be misleading. People in the Matlab community are asking me whether you are still alive, and how you are at the present moment. The same happened to me. I asked myself whether you still alive when I saw these pages, and there is now news on it. I have read your story about what you had to go through, and it is very touching. But a view words about how you are at the present moment would be helpful to create clarity. Best wishes for your health.

[@swharden]

Hi Peter, these are good questions! I updated my website swharden.com to make it a little easier to determine how I'm doing. I'm doing well now, but the type of cancer I had has a high rate of recurrence, so I'm hesitant to make a "I'm better now" video because I don't want to follow-it up with a "I'm not better after all" video if I start to get sick again... so my plan is to keep moving forward making new content, and not really go into medical details until things change. My GitHub page is the best way to confirm I'm still working and sew what I'm up to lately!

[@rmjormjo]

@@swharden Thank you Scott about the information about your Github. It is not far from my Github, although I don t code.I think it is very difficult to talk and write about such things in public, and it takes a lot of courage to do so. You did a great job in that respect, and often people who went through such problems are those have grown the most in their personal developement.

[@user-cv7zu7oz4r]

I have a doubt,will it give same accuracy like real ecg machine.and how many percentage of accuracy will it give

[@biomed2560]

As a retired biomedical engineer, I can comment on the accuracy. Firstly the timing accuracy. This is hardly going to be affected by a simple ecg device such as this one. The intervals between cardiac events take place anyway and are recorded by the device and the viewing system and will be shown clearly. To make a real diagnosis one has to make careful measurements of the interval between the events (eg QRS interval) with a high quality system and then use years of experience and training to make a diagnosis. As for the amplitudes, these are indeed likely to be distorted by the simple circuits but amplitudes are hardly used in diagnosis because they are so variable and unreliable anyway. Electrode type and placement, chest wall thickness, obesity and gender all affect the amplitude. Mains interference and movement artefact also affect the apparent amplitude so apart from the general shape of the signal, I suggest you forget about the amplitude. The exception to this is if you see that the QRS spike is very low and flat, in which case you should seek medical attention.

[@joealtman5067]

How about a DIY Ultrasound Probe.

[@lrq3000]

See the echOpen project

[@sanchitaghosh2921]

Hey I am b.tech second year student I want to make this project..can u guys pls tell me can i make this with Arduino if not then which thing can i prefer and which language use in this project ??

[@pradiptapatra5860]

Hi sir..... Great video...... But can it connects with any display tht r available in market...... If yes then which kind of display and how?????

[@swharden]

Hi Pradipta, if you don't want to use a computer any oscilloscope (even a cheap one) can display the signal.

[@pradiptapatra5860]

@@swharden thank u sir

[@wendymitriful]

I watched your video very carefully because I am very interested in this equipment. I am in a country where such equipment could save lives. the health centers in my country Burkina Faso are very ill-equipped and you often have to travel at least 100km to be able to do an ecg. I plan to do a low ecg that could equip health centers in isolated regions. the system must allow a technician to connect the device to his phone via Bluetooth and perform an ecg and transmit the result by email to a cardiologist via WhatsApp. but for this to be able to obtain validation from the medical profession, more than 3 electrodes (at least 6) are needed. have you studied the possibility of pairing several AD8232 and connecting them to an arduino with a Bluetooth shield?

[@swharden]

Hi Dimitri, what a great idea! A good and simple way to make this wireless is to use Arduino (like you suggest). Use it's ADC to convert it to a stream of values and send it over RS232 USART (serial). Then use a wireless/bluetooth RS232 module to send it to a receiving computer or phone. The software should be simple to develop if you do it this way. Scaling this to a 6- or 12-channel wireless ecg would take a little more effort (because simple arduino + serial probably won't be fast enough), but the concept will be the same. XBee radio modules could be a longer-range alternative to bluetooth.