Currently, baby incubators in Uganda are too expensive and limited, impacting the lives of many families living in rural areas with sick babies. Our team was asked to create a $150 baby incubator that could monitor and control the baby’s temperature and also safely carry the baby 1-3 hours on a stretcher in an ambulance, made with locally available materials in Uganda.
We decided on an incubator with a laser-cut wooden body and an acrylic viewing window. I was in charge of the electrical system that consisted of a temperature sensor feeding live data from the baby’s skin to the Arduino, which then turned the heat lamp on/off through a relay and also displayed the live temperature on an LCD screen.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wOZRHsXS_xsuZ50wPjB_i5U6Hshgmg3T/view?usp=drivesdk
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