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Ask HN: What do you actually use your biohack implants for?

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Re: Ask HN: What do you actually use your biohack implants for?

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Does a CGM glucose monitoring sensor count? I get the values real time to my android watch and remote InfluxDB for later analysis.

What time-series graphing tools do you use? Grafana? R with influxdbr?

Grafana, and wrote an extension for xDrip plus to support InfluxDB.

Re: Ask HN: What do you actually use your biohack implants for?

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Can you not use it to pay for things? thats the whole reason I want to get one like an upgrade from apple pay

Unfortunately no, this is a passive tag that can only let you read data that's on the chip. The chip also had a unique ID. Android or Apple Pay use your phone's NFC antenna to communicate. But they don't give out the same information every time.

That makes it pretty useless. You can't sign or decrypt an AES key, no display. I'm even more convinced that the bio-hacking is nothing but a badly thought out fad.

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Does a CGM glucose monitoring sensor count? I get the values real time to my android watch and remote InfluxDB for later analysis.

I've been considering doing something like this, which CGM do you use and how do get the numbers out? Are you able to automate sending them into InfluxDB?

Dexcom G4 with self-soldered chip to translate the transmitter signal to Bluetooth. Xdrip plus in my phone with my own extension for Influx. All real time and automatic. Nightscout's Xdrip repo should have the Influx extension.

Re: Ask HN: What do you actually use your biohack implants for?

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Does a CGM glucose monitoring sensor count? I get the values real time to my android watch and remote InfluxDB for later analysis.

You have this as an implant? Link please...

I didn't know is the Dexcom G4 actually an implant, because it comes out from your skin. Devices like this are pretty common with diabetics nowadays

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What time-series graphing tools do you use? Grafana? R with influxdbr?

Grafana, and wrote an extension for xDrip plus to support InfluxDB.

Interesting project. I am not bio-hacked, except for a Pebble watch with HR / movement sensors which I send to InfluxDB. I use Grafana, but for some graphs (especially when I want to see weekly trends), I use R + influxdbr. Here is a screenshot of my heart-rate of the last three months (1 minute interval + lowess smoothing to remove outliers): http://imgur.com/x3ERdPc

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You have this as an implant? Link please...

I didn't know is the Dexcom G4 actually an implant, because it comes out from your skin. Devices like this are pretty common with diabetics nowadays

I was assuming OP was referring to custom-built projects. I too have a CGM (thanks to the recent Australian Federal subsidy) - a massive shame the technology isn't more open.

Re: Ask HN: What do you actually use your biohack implants for?

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You could easily cut an Oyster Card chip out of the card, stick it in your hand and use it to travel in London.

Best "hack" I heard for an Oyster Card was someone putting it inside an actual oyster, beeping in and out of the London Underground with it.

Sounds like a Hoxton hipster being ironic.

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I would suspect that your troubles go beyond "frowns". A ticket inspector wants to see a valid oyster card, not a party trick, and whether it scans or not, I don't think it's a high bar to argue that a tampered with card isn't valid, period. (Officially, at least. I've seen them happily scan the outsides of people's wallets.)

Not sure why you got downvoted. English rail laws are pretty clear about tickets. http://content.tfl.gov.uk/tfl-conditions-of-carriage.pdf > 5.1 All photocards and Oyster photocards remain our property and must not be intentionally damaged, altered or tampered with in any way. We may withdraw or cancel your photocard or Oyster photocard at any time The railway bylaws say this: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/sy…

Why isn't anyone protesting those TOS? Them having the apparently unqualified right to cancel the card you paid for is unacceptable.

Re: Ask HN: What do you actually use your biohack implants for?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Grafana, and wrote an extension for xDrip plus to support InfluxDB.

Interesting project. I am not bio-hacked, except for a Pebble watch with HR / movement sensors which I send to InfluxDB. I use Grafana, but for some graphs (especially when I want to see weekly trends), I use R + influxdbr. Here is a screenshot of my heart-rate of the last three months (1 minute interval + lowess smoothing to remove outliers): http://imgur.com/x3ERdPc

It has probably saved me from getting blind or losing a leg in the next 20 years. From 8.5% A1c to 6.5% and below. Together with the pump I see my glucose all the time, it wakes me up at night if needed and I can eat and live however I like with perfect glucose values.

Every single type 1 diabetic should have the possibility to have one of these systems.

I'll post pictures later when I get home...

Re: Ask HN: What do you actually use your biohack implants for?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't know is the Dexcom G4 actually an implant, because it comes out from your skin. Devices like this are pretty common with diabetics nowadays

I was assuming OP was referring to custom-built projects. I too have a CGM (thanks to the recent Australian Federal subsidy) - a massive shame the technology isn't more open.

If using the Dexcom G4, you need to solder one of these to use it with xdrip

https://xdripkit.co.uk/

G5 works directly with the software because the transmitter speaks Bluetooth.

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