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Adding more sensors: breathing detection
SPO2 seemed doomed, so I looked into detecting breathing.
Measuring airflow from the nose seemed like the obvious way to go.
The wind sensor from modern devices is actually sensitive enough that it can be made to work.
I got some nose cannula online, and technically they are medical instruments with sale restrictions. At least it's not as bad as trying to find syringes to refill cartridges.
While I'm not fond of nose cannula, I figured I had to try that first.
The modern devices output could conveniently be tuned to output between 0 and Vcc, trivial to read on an arduino analog pin.