The printed circuit board was designed and wired by using the AutoCAD designer, and it was printed and aligned for soldering. After connecting the electrodes through the sensor interface, the board was powered by a battery module to collect potentiometric signals from the surface of the ion-sensing microneedle electrode. The signals were processed through a two-stage differential circuit to reduce signal distortion and common-mode noise interference. Subsequently, the collected analog signal was converted into a digital signal using the STM32 chip through analog-to-digital conversion, and a gradient conversion was performed according to the calibration curve obtained from in vitro experiments to obtain the corresponding ion concentration. The concentration was transmitted to the Bluetooth module via a serial port to send the concentration data of different ions to the mobile terminal that displays the trend graph of ion changes through the interface that was designed using LabVIEW software (NI, USA).
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