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Medical Electronics Education with Mark Palmeri

The Amp Hour · 22 Dec 2025 · 1h 29m · Episode 711

What this episode covers

Dr. Mark Palmeri, a professor at Duke University, discusses his BME Design Fellows program and the Tympanometer project, an open-source medical device built for low-resource communities. He explains how he uses open tools like KiCad, Zephyr RTOS, and Jupyter notebooks to teach practical engineering skills, emphasizing validation and verification (V&V) processes required for medical devices. Palmeri details the challenges of transitioning from academic prototyping to commercialization, including regulatory hurdles and the ethical considerations of cost-reduced medical hardware.

Most relevant to

early-stage companies

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Duke University, Nordic, NXP, Psylabs, ST, Blur Product Development
Products
Tympanometer
Tools
KiCad, Zephyr, ngspice, Jupyter notebooks, Arduino, VS Code, GitHub

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