Thermal pain device

Smertecenter Middelfart[1] is a place of research for pain and its implications on the lives of citizens.

They currently have some testing equipment to induce pain on patients, but it is either very expensive or not very user friendly. The job will be to construct a device to induce a measurable amount of pain on patients and log the data.

Example of device: One example is using a Peltier module (heating plate) that the patient will place his hand on, and remove the hand when he starts feeling pain. A thermistor wil then sense the temperature and the data (temperature + time on plate) can be logged for further use. The interface on the device could be made simply with an LCD screen and a few buttons connected to an Arduino.

Perspective: the aim is for this (or a similar) device to be available for clinicians nation-wide, so any patient can be easily tested.