This one is for the computer nerds, programers... and wiz kids

[irishanaconda]

Can u please make a app for my phone that allowes me to ultrasound my snakes? Now thats somthing id pay $3.99 for

[BWyant]

Uh... I do have a buddy that makes apps for phones, but is that actually possible to do?

I mean, if there's money in it and someone was willing to pay him to develop the app, I'm sure he'd do it.

But... How, theoretically, would it work?

[irishanaconda]

Uh... I do have a buddy that makes apps for phones, but is that actually possible to do?

I mean, if there's money in it and someone was willing to pay him to develop the app, I'm sure he'd do it.

But... How, theoretically, would it work?

Honestly i dont know lol, but if it takes cutting down some rare flower in Brazil.... so be it lol

[BWyant]

I think the first issue would be - what else can you ultrasound, you know, apart from human babies.

I say that because it would have to be worthwhile for someone to develop the app and then sell it and I highly doubt the market would be big enough if all it serviced was ball pythons.

I've got no idea how an ultrasound works, but I suppose you could plug something into your phone, sort of like is down with credit-card readers now, and then have that device perform an ultrasound.... I dunno.

[The Serpent Merchant]

Can you make an app that lets your phone display an ultrasound for a few $ Sure

Can you make the hardware required to actually produce said ultrasound in that price range... No

[irishanaconda]

[Coleslaw007]

Just use echo location like bats. Hold your snake in front of you, scream at it with a shrill tone, and listen to see it's insides. Boom! Problem solved.

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[The Serpent Merchant]

Uh... I do have a buddy that makes apps for phones, but is that actually possible to do?

I mean, if there's money in it and someone was willing to pay him to develop the app, I'm sure he'd do it.

But... How, theoretically, would it work?

Being an electrical engineer I have actually looked into something similar. I tried to make an oscilloscope that ran off my iPhone.

Doing the same with ultrasound requires basically the same things.

1. An app that receives data then displays it on the phones screen. This is the easy part... even with limited knowledge of app coding this can be done.

2. Hardware probe (in my case it was voltage probes, but in this case it would be an ultrasound transducer). This is where things start to get expensive, as this part alone will cost at least $90

3. Completely custom interface between the phone and the ultrasound transducer. This is where costs go through the roof. You need a device that converts the signals from the transducer to ones that the phone can understand then you need to get the data to the phone. There are 3 ways to do so. 1. Bluetooth 2. Wi-Fi 3. Custom cable All three will require custom circuit boards and will add $250 at least.

So all in all the cheapest that this could be done small scale would be around $350 still far cheaper than a full ultrasound machine but it would be extremely limited in what it could do (phones just don't have enough processing power yet) and due to limited volume it just doesn't make sense.

[kevinb]

I don't quite think our technology is quite that advanced yet....

[BFE Pets]

Lol another great thread.