What is it?
Muscle BioAmp Patchy v0.2 is a small wearable muscle sensor for precise EMG sensing. The sensor can be snapped directly to the electrodes, eliminating electrode cables.
What are you going to make with it?
We have some project ideas for you: https://bit.ly/UDL-projects
What will you get?
- Muscle BioAmp Patchy
- Reference Cable
- Free* BioAmp Accessories Kit,
- 6 Gel Electrodes.
- 3 Jumper Cables
*Note:
- Gel electrodes should only be used once, and discarded afterward – treat them like sterile medical products!
- Muscle BioAmp Patchy comes with 6 gel electrodes but you can easily buy them online either from us or any other vendor.
- BioAmp Accessories Kit is free till the stock last.
Features & Specifications:
- Minimum Input Voltage: 4.5 V
- Input Impedance: 10^12 Ω
- Fixed Gain: x2420
- Bandpass filter: 72 – 720 Hz
- Wearable: Yes
- Compatible Hardware: Any development board with an ADC (Arduino UNO & Nano, Espressif ESP32, Adafruit QtPy, STM32 Blue Pill, BeagleBone Black, Raspberry Pi Pico, to name just a few)
- BioPotentials: EMG (Electromyography)
- No. of channels: 1
- Electrodes: 3 (Positive, Negative, and Reference)
- Dimensions: 47 x 14 mm
- Open Source: Hardware + Software
Connecting with Arduino:
To get started, you can pair Muscle BioAmp Patchy with any development board with an ADC (Arduino UNO & Nano, Espressif ESP32, Adafruit QtPy, STM32 Blue Pill, BeagleBone Black, Raspberry Pi Pico, to name just a few) or any standalone ADC of your choice.
For the connections and electrode placements, you can follow the diagram given below:
Unboxing the kit:
Using the sensor:
What is EMG?
Electromyography (EMG) is a technique for evaluating and recording the electrical activity produced by skeletal muscles.
Electromyography is used in some real-world applications like,
- Prosthetic hands,
- Human augmentation,
- Games controllers,
- Rehabilitation and
- Physical therapy to name just a few.
Even doctors are using them for the diagnosis of various neuromuscular ailments.
Recently, It was in the news that Meta is working on wearable EMG sensors to track user movements in the metaverse.
Why did we make Muscle BioAmp Patchy?
EMG devices are typically quite expensive, as they are medical-grade diagnostic devices. But with an affordable EMG sensor like this, you can record biopotential signals from muscles, conduct experiments and make amazing projects at a fraction of the cost of a professional EMG machine.
We want to make neuroscience affordable and accessible to all so that students and researchers get inclined towards neuroscience and explore it by doing awesome projects at ease.
For the full documentation and software examples, you can visit our GitHub Repository: https://github.com/upsidedownlabs/Muscle-BioAmp-Patchy
For any queries, you can directly mail us at support@upsidedownlabs.tech
Shivani –
Bought it to record and visualize muscle signals for a final year project of biomedical engineering. It worked great and now I am thinking to buy more to make a multi channel EMG acquisition system.
Also loved the colors. My favourite one is blue.
John Jacobs –
Wanted to try an affordable muscle sensor for my research project and this served the purpose really well as it can be snapped directly to the gel electrodes.
Dipankar Grover –
I wanted to order myoware muscle sensor for my college project but it was not available anywhere from a long time.
So I tried Muscle BioAmp Patchy and the signal quality is far better than my expectations.
souvik1112 –
It’s a nice & robust product.