New guy with lots of questions! Also, power idea.
So, I just found out about biohacking completely by accident. I was searching YouTube for videos on syntetic biology and somehow came across Lepht’s speech on Cybernetics for the Masses. Since then, I haven’t been able to sleep well. My mind is abuzz with ideas and I’ve been digging through everything I can find to get more information. I have an understanding of physics, but not so much when it comes to actually building things. Something I need to learn, any ideas for practice projects? I’ve roped a few friends into the research, and they seem psyched so far. One of them is a med tech, so we may have access to some otherwise barred resources.
I plan to get one or two neodymium implants in my left hand to start with and (if they work out well) then move on to more. First two would be in my left ring finger and thumb. Which side of the thumb would you suggest? Don't want it directly under the pad, for pressure reasons.
On the idea front, I had one about subdermal power. If you move a magnetic field over conductive wire, you can generate an electric field. Would subdermal wires stimulated by a magnet (say in your hand?) be enough to power the Southpaw or something like it long enough to get a reading?
I've also been trying to think of other implants. The only ones i've seen so far are RFID, neopads, and southpaw. What other kind of input could you get without going transdermal? Maybe some sort of unsecured wifi detector?
As for bioproofing, has anyone here actually used hot glue? If so, how is it working out and how long have you had it in?
Anyway, I'm sure I'll come up with more questions and ideas along the road. Thank you all for existing in the first place. I had given up hope that things like this could actually be possible.
(edited transdermal/subdermal mistake. Thanks!)
(edited transdermal/subdermal mistake. Thanks!)
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All those things you mentioned are subdermal (under the skin); I assume you meant transdermal (protruding the skin). One simple way would be to follow the example of Kevin Warwick's students and build an interface with the magnet implants, by creating a device which outputs a pulsing magnetic field, with frequency proportional to the level of sensation. Indeed, that's exactly the route we at Grindhouse have taken with our Bottlenose device. It's also worth pointing out that one of the members on this forum, @SixEcho, once did some interesting work with transdermals.
As for hot glue, the conclusion here with that or Sugru has usually been, "Meh." If we're talking magnet implants, just get the ones pre-coated in Parylene or something similar.
You are right, edited my mistake. I like the idea of the ones that interact with my finger magnets, but implantable would be ideal. If only we could get a power source going...
I hear transdermals are bad news bears when it comes to hygiene. Any advances in that department?
it is inherently unsafe. RFID is only useful for identification."
Not inherently unsafe, just usually unsafe in practice. Phillips once developed a tag called Hitag, which was encrypted in a way that, to my knowledge, was never broken. However, they must have discontinued it, because I can't find a product page anywhere online, at least not through Google.
Also, I once remember hearing an idea about using a RFID tag as a public key in a public/private key system, but I don't know where, if anywhere, they ended up going with that.
"The second electronic implant I'd like to develop is something that
would go in my upper arm and would monitor my blood oxygenation and my
core temperature. It would log these values throughout the day, and I
could transmit them to my computer using a reader once a day or
something like that."
That's precisely the goal that Grindhouse has for its next product, the HELEDD. In version 0.1, we plan to put sensors for core temperature, heart rate, and blood pressure, and it can interact with a wireless device through Bluetooth. Oxygenation sensors are another idea.
I guess you could have some sort of balloon and measure the compression of the gas, either via the tension (change in form) or via airflow.