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Measure your blood values, make your own diagnosis
Summary
It takes a long time for us to go to the hospital,have our blood values measured and get the results This situation becomes more difficult,especially during the pandemic period.Taking this problem into consideration in our project,we developed a system where people can easily measure their own values.We used vitaminE as an example in our system.We made a separator for vitaminE.We dropped the blood samples taken from two individuals onto our separator and observed that the results were yellow inthe person with vitaminE deficiency and brown in the person with no deficiency.Taking advantage of this,we made a bracelet that includes a color sensor.We think that this bracelet can be used on astrot
How We Addressed This Challenge
It takes a long time for us to go to the hospital, have our blood values measured and get the results. Especially during this pandemic period this situation becomes more difficult. Based on this issue, we developed a bracelet with a sound and color sensor. With the help of the button color and sound sensor we added to the bracelet, we aim to measure people's blood values. People can easily learn the deficiencies in blood values with the change of color and sound after dropping blood samples into reagents. At the same time, this system can be applied by astronauts sent to space.
How We Developed This Project
We observed that people are hesitant to go to the hospital to donate blood, especially during the pandemic period. Based on these observations, we think that people can easily take blood measurements and these results on their own without going to the hospital. Thus, we thought of developing a less costly system. We planned to add the color and sound sensor, one of the easiest methods, to our system. Then we did an experiment on vitamin E to prove its applicability. In this experiment, we used 65% nitric acid and 35% ethyl alcohol to drip blood samples from two individuals on top of the separator, taking advantage of the colour difference created by the blood of individuals who are deficient and not deficient in vitamin E. We observed that the results for individuals with vitamin E deficiency were yellow, and the ones for individuals without vitamin E deficiency were brown. In line with these observations, we added the color sensor and put it in the Arduino loop. In order to get more accurate information, we then added the sound sensor on the colour sensor.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
https://sa-2019.s3.amazonaws.com/media/documents/Space_Apps_2020_Project_Submission_Guide.pdf
https://sa-2019.s3.amazonaws.com/media/documents/Space_Apps_2020_Judging_and_Awards_Guide.docx.pdf
https://covid19.spaceappschallenge.org/bootcamp/
https://2019.spaceappschallenge.org/live-stream
https://sa-2019.s3.amazonaws.com/media/documents/Infographic-SpaceAppsCOVID19Challenge.pdf
https://sa-2019.s3.amazonaws.com/media/documents/Space_Apps_COVID-19_Challenge_Chat_Guidelines.pdf
https://sa-2019.s3.amazonaws.com/media/documents/Space_Apps_2019_Submitting_Nominees_for_Global_Judging_Guide_ygij6Wk.pdf
Project Demo
Data & Resources
https://acikders.ankara.edu.tr/pluginfile.php/7174/mod_resource/content/0/11.%20Hafta.pdf
https://www.google.com.tr/amp/s/maker.robotistan.com/tcs3200-ile-renk-algilama-uygulamasi/amp/
https://www.fllcasts.com/tutorials/812-how-to-program-the-ev3-color-sensor
https://ev3-help-online.api.education.lego.com/Retail/en-us/ColorSensor.html
https://www.google.com.tr/amp/s/amp.dw.com/tr/covid-19-ile-m%25C3%25BCcadele-vitaminsiz-olmuyor/a-53385773
Gaziantep University Associate Professor Doctor Işık Didem Karagöz
Acıbadem University Medical Engineer Berkay Akarsu