  {"id":4154,"date":"2015-11-06T15:18:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T20:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/?p=4154"},"modified":"2017-06-27T15:37:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T20:37:05","slug":"medical-capsule-hardware-and-software-now-open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/medical-capsule-hardware-and-software-now-open-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical capsule hardware and software now open source"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: black;font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size: small\">VISE Affiliate\u00a0Pietro Valdastri Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering\u00a0(<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/stormlab\/lab-members\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size: small\">https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/stormlab\/lab-members\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: black;font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size: small\">) and his team at the\u00a0STORM lab (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/stormlab\/lab-members\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size: small\">https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/stormlab\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: black;font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size: small\">) have been instrumental\u00a0in developing technologies to foster the development of medical capsule robots small enough to be swallowed that could be used for preventive screenings and to diagnose and treat a number of internal diseases.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: black;font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: black;font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size: small\">Through <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/pillforge.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size: small\">a website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: black;font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size: small\"> and a paper revealed at a pair of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) conferences Valdastri and collaborator Akos Ledeczi, Associate Professor of Computer Engineering\u00a0(<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isis.vanderbilt.edu\/akos\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size: small\">http:\/\/www.isis.vanderbilt.edu\/akos<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: black;font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size: small\">) recently made the medical capsule hardware and software open-source. By providing a hardware and software component library and the tools to make their composition easy, Vanderbilt opens up the field of medical capsule robots to engineers and scientists who have great ideas but aren\u2019t hardware or software experts, plus makes development costs far more affordable.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: black;font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: black;font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size: small\">Read more: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.vanderbilt.edu\/news\/2015\/vanderbilt%E2%80%99s-medical-capsule-robots%E2%80%99-hardware-software-goes-open-source\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size: small\">http:\/\/engineering.vanderbilt.edu\/news\/2015\/vanderbilt%E2%80%99s-medical-capsule-robots%E2%80%99-hardware-software-goes-open-source\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: black;font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VISE Affiliate\u00a0Pietro Valdastri Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering\u00a0(https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/stormlab\/lab-members\/) and his team at the\u00a0STORM lab (https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/stormlab\/) have been instrumental\u00a0in developing technologies to foster the development of medical capsule robots small enough to be swallowed that could be used for preventive screenings and to diagnose and treat a number of internal diseases.\u00a0 \u00a0 Through a website and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[231],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2019\/03\/19171028\/valdastri-headshot.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p98pzF-150","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4154"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5791,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions\/5791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}