Last Updated on January 20, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
And what to do, if BITalino does not publish validation studies in Nature, Alexpress sellers keep selling old EEG modules, and DFROBOT continues to create only sports buttons? We will try to follow the path of Scott W. Harden. Scott, DMD, PhD publishes papers in Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Neurophysiology and Cardiovascular Research:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=egCaj-AAAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao
As a scientist with academic and clinical training, Scott now uses advanced electrophysiological and optical techniques to characterize novel signaling pathways in the brain. He co-authors papers with Charles J Frazier, which has a lab which is specialized in cellular neurophysiology and optical imaging, and is a well known neuroscientist. Over the last 10 years, Scott Harden developed a sound card ECG device, which he published on his personal website, and has many followers worldwide. Scotts device is very popular, we suppose because Scotts device is optimized for low-cost high quality.
Scott W. Harden was diagnosed with cancer in 2012 (peripheral T-cell lymphoma, PTCL-NOS) and began treatments in 2018 including chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and an autologous bone marrow transplant. In July, 2022 Scott is now classified as a patient with relapsed peripheral T-cell lymphoma. Although he is not in any immediate danger, 3 years after his autologous bone marrow transplant it now seems likely that he will require additional treatment at some point. Currently his disease remains indolent and things are moving slowly, so his next course of treatment is not yet decided.We feel sorry for Scott, but it is fine that there is not any immediate danger for him, and we wish Scott all the best for his health.
The Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS) failed to establish itself in Switzerland to this date as research institute which receives a grant and publishes papers. One reason is the lack of laboratory equipment. The MRIS is still a private project of Peter Gamma on Peter Gammas personal website. But all the same, we published 943 posts on your website to evaluate laboratory equipment for meditation research institutes who want to survive and want to be sustainable.
After the evaluation we made on our personal website, we came to the conclusion, that the path from sensor module to a 16 bit A/D converter to an ESP32 module to Home Assistant to InfluxDB, Grafana, and Python is one of the most promising soft- and hardware for meditation researchers. We are physiologists, and not passionate about soft- and hardware development. If Scott Harden, DFROBOT, BITalino and electronic engineers do not support us, we have to solder and test these soft- and hardware components ourselves. In that case, we will keep our path simple, keep soft- and hardware for our project simple, and will realize it step by step.