TheGreyKnight
Finally back.
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I can comfortably say that you won't be able to DIY this. It would be safer and cheaper to do some medical tourism to another country with reputable surgeons who you might be able to convince to do it for money. Probably somewhere in Central/South America or Central/Southern Asia. I'm not saying you shouldn't do attempt to…
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That kinda technology makes me really nervous, for exactly the reasons tekniklr mentioned. I think the first article you mentioned @sas86 is kinda optimistic, at least with regards to america.
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There's a discord now?
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Go big or go home when it comes to magnets. As far as biocompatible lubes go, this one looks safe at first glance (LINK) Lidocaine paste is not going to cut it unless you have a good deal of pain tolerance.
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I misread. The Kalydeco is 24k for 60 tablets.
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How much money are you willing to spend on this, and what kind of time frame do you need stuff done by? As far as medications go, the 2 drugs I see, Orkambi and Kalydeco are available from some online pharmacies, however, they cost $15,000 USD and $24,000 USD respectively for 28 capsules. Unless you're a billionaire, I…
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As everyone up to this point has said, unless you happen to have equipment to manufacture your own circuit boards, you're not going to make something that's not clunky. Here's a link to an instructable that might get you started on the right path: https://instructables.com/id/Arduino-Data-Glasses-for-My-Multimeter/
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I think you'll see the most success by starting with an amplifier that's vastly overpowered for the task. I'm not sure what the form factor would be, but quadrupling your wattage would be a good start.
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So, from what research I've done, the lower your coil impedance, the higher your speaker's sensitivity. The higher your impedance, the more manageable a load it is for your amplifier. Since you're driving a small magnet far away, you're going to need to pump a lot of power out, since the falloff of the magnetic field from…
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I'm not sure how much help it would be, but using a resonant inductive system might afford you a longer range solution for external power supply than NFC. some of the designs I saw were good for like 100 mm, but that could be heavily dependent on coil orientation. I'm currently looking into making a centralized wireless…
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@Psyber how much power do you need for your device?
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Florida or Australia?
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Are we talking proteins that kill cancer cells? Or serve as markers for the immune system to kill cancer? If you're talking about the second, we already do something like that with CART-cell treatments. They engineer an antibody on a patient's T-Cells using computer analyzed sites on the surface of the cancer cells and…
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If you want to do it without a cell phone, you could make a circuit with flash memory and a way of reading said memory and playing it into your implant. Alternatively, a generator circuit. In my opinion, a bluetooth-based system would make things easy. Just cannibalize a pair of bluetooth headphones and wire the output to…
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@Cassox would you be interested in learning more about ee? I've got a great program that comes with some good guides on the basics, and even gets into some of the more complicated stuff. I can post the link up later this afternoon.
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I don't mind talking to people, but depending on my schedule, it could be a few days before I get back to someone.
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I couldn't implant right away, but if the performance is as good or better than Haworth magnets, I'd be amenable to a magnet priced at whatever the base cost of the magnet was plus whatever fraction of the manufacturing few the magnet accounts for, and maybe another 10-20% of whatever the costs to that point were.
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I'm honestly surprised it hasn't happened sooner, and glad it was fixed so quickly.
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I think once we nail down the magnet coating issue, we'll be able to do more of this sort of thing, but I think, at least for the moment, that using magnets as our main vector for data input would be a wise idea. I believe that there was a thread on "invisible headphones" which utilized a magnet mounted on the tragus and…
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I've been toying with an idea now for a few weeks. Do you think we could, either through 3D printing, machining, or injection molding, make a small, sub-millimeter thick canister out of HDPE or another biocompatible plastic that's open on one end, slide our magnet into that, and then just ultrasonically weld the end shut…
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I did some research for a short friend asking a similar question awhile back, and I did find something. You could try taking "high" doses of arginine, lysine, and ornithine for a week or 2 at a time, with breaks in between. I don't know how to calculate what dose you'd need, how long a break you'd need, and how long it's…
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I can't say for sure, but you could look into whatever field deals with making artificial replacements for organs. Whoever makes the first artificial heart that works just as well as a natural heart is going to make big money. Or an artificial pancreas, liver, or kidney that can actually be implanted. Endocrinology is…
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So, does anyone know about the process used to magnetize the neodymium after it's been sintered? It seems to me that all we need to do is buy unmagnetized NdFeB pellets in the right size, coat, then magnetize. I don't really have the connections, capital, or lab equipment to produce magnets this way, but I'd be more than…
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That could be fun. I agree that a sticky thread of some sort needs to be made, where all of this can be dealt with centrally.
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Did someone say florida? Assuming I don't get too bogged down, I am totally going to come visit. It's damned near time I finally meet more of y'all in person.
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I bet if you took your culture liquid, mixed it with gelatin, and let it set up, you could probably grow your scoby culture in a shape. @IvoTheSquire no it wouldn't. Scoby's an aerobic culture, so you'd just get a culture with a hole in it.
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So, I'm not sure if you'd be looking at an allergy test, but with neodymium, or magnet material instead of an allergen, or something else.
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My gut tells me it's not, but I've got to ask. Do you think it is/could be made biocompatible? I know it'd probably be a nightmare to sterilize.
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Alright. So based on the various MSDS sheets and info I've found neodymium possesses a low to moderate toxicity compared to other rare earth elements. In the amounts you probably had, I don't think anything bad will happen beyond the rejection. @Cassox would know better than I would, probably.
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I'll take a look at neodymium's toxicity and post something later.