Tearing down a colonoscopy pill camera

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Normally, colonoscopies are rather invasive affairs. Swallowing a small pill with a camera is much more amenable to a patient's dignity and are seeing increasing usage in colon cancer screening. [Mike] acquired a pillcam from a relative who underwent the procedure and did a teardown to figure out how it works. To get the video signal out of the body, the pillcam has two contacts that conduct … [Read more...]