MedTech

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Medical technology through history
• Tech in clinics and hospitals
• Engineers and doctors as a team

🎬 Animated demo

Tour a hospital and see the machines in every room.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Medical inventions timeline
• Interview a health worker

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Heartbeat and breathing
• Tiny electrical signals in the body
• Why doctors measure them

🎬 Animated demo

Watch a heartbeat turn into a wave on a monitor.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Measure pulse after exercise
• Body signals poster

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Normal body temperature
• Digital and IR thermometers
• Fever alerts

🎬 Animated demo

An IR thermometer reads a forehead in a second.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Fever alert thermometer
• Temperature chart for a week

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Beats per minute
• How pulse sensors see blood flow
• Resting vs active heart rate

🎬 Animated demo

A finger on the sensor makes the pulse line jump with each beat.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Pulse-reading LED
• Exercise heart-rate study

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Oxygen in blood
• How pulse oximeters use light
• Normal SpO2 values

🎬 Animated demo

Red and infrared light shine through a finger to show oxygen level.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• SpO2 reading chart
• Pulse oximeter explainer poster

🎯 What you’ll learn

• What blood pressure means
• How the cuff works
• Top and bottom numbers

🎬 Animated demo

The cuff squeezes and releases while the numbers appear.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Family BP log (with an adult)
• Healthy habits chart

🎯 What you’ll learn

• ECG heart waves
• X-rays see bones
• MRI uses magnets

🎬 Animated demo

Switch between ECG, X-ray and MRI views of the body.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Machine match-up cards
• Hospital machine model

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Step counting
• Sleep and heart tracking
• Healthy reminders

🎬 Animated demo

A band counts steps as a person walks.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Step counter project
• Stand-up reminder

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Tech for people with disabilities
• Smart canes and wheelchairs
• Designing with empathy

🎬 Animated demo

A smart cane beeps as it nears an obstacle.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Smart blind stick
• Easy-press call button

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Detecting a fall
• Sending alerts to family
• Panic buttons

🎬 Animated demo

A fall is detected and an alert reaches a phone.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Fall detector with buzzer
• Grandparent help button

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Touch-free sanitisers and taps
• Sensors that stop germs spreading
• UV cleaning basics

🎬 Animated demo

A hand comes near and the sanitiser sprays by itself.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Touch-free sanitiser
• Automatic tap model

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Choose a health problem
• Build and test safely
• Present your helper

🎬 Animated demo

Sensors, alerts and displays combine into a health helper.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Medicine reminder box
• Smart health station (final project)