Hugo Silva

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Hugo Plácido da Silva | Hugo completed a BS in Computer Science, and a MS in Electrical and Computers Engineering. Since 2004, Hugo is a researcher at the IT - Instituto de Telecomunicações, where he’s currently pursuing his PhD. In 2012, he was a visiting researcher at the Computational and NeuroEgineering Labority (CNEL) from the University of Florida. He is also one of the co-founders of PLUX – Wireless Biosignals, established in 2007 as an innovative technology-based company operating in the field of medical devices for healthcare and quality of life, where Hugo is currently a Board Member and Innovation Advisor.

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Authored Content

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5 human-powered open hardware projects

Thanks in large part to open hardware platforms like BITalino, biosignals are no longer bound to the walls of a medical practice; whether you're looking for the next cool…

How to build a DIY heart and activity tracking device

A few weeks ago, my doctor told me to keep an eye on my heart with the help of DIY toolkit BITalino, and I wrote about it in Why my doctor prescribed me open hardware…

Why my doctor prescribed me open hardware

I recall a senior medical doctor once saying that being a practitioner nowadays is much more difficult than ever before, because when people get diagnosed, they go home to…

5 DIY hardware platforms for physiological computing

Physiological computing focuses on the use of biosignals for the development of interactive software and hardware systems capable of sensing, processing, reacting, and…

The future of devices for health is not wearables

Dozens of new self-tracking wearable devices appear every month. They target health and quality of life applications, from sleep to physical activity. And, they are packaged…

Open hardware sensor BITalino for cool projects

Smaller than a credit card, BITalino is a low-cost hardware and open source software toolkit, aligned with the DIY (do-it-yourself) movement. It enables anyone to create…

Authored Comments

hugoslv

23 Jun 2015

Why my doctor prescribed me open hardware

A follow-up article with a few pointers on how to build a more practical device and record and analyze the data is now available here: https://opensource.com/life/15/6/how-build-diy-activity-tracking-device

hugoslv

14 Jun 2015

Why my doctor prescribed me open hardware

Figure 1 is really a pretty simple chart created by loading the stored data straight from the file and plotting it with the matplotlib library (http://matplotlib.org/gallery.html).

I'll try to put together a more comprehensive/useful codebase, and make it available to the community.