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  • As @tekniklr said, the gen1 fireflies can migrate. Mine can move around quite alot, sliding from anywhere in the middle of the back of my left hand all the way up to sit between the knuckles of my middle and ring fingers. The back of the hand seems to be especially prone to this type of thing, though, as no other implant I…
  • @SurvivorSVN, unfortunately the Ohio Revised Code and Ohio Administrative Code prevent implanters from openly peddling the service. As near as I've been able to ferret out of the rules in those, nothing using a scalpel would be allowed since it would get classified as a medical procedure, so any implant would be limited to…
  • Honestly, I would like it if you guys can prove that magnets don't kill these things and it actually did just fail due to a manufacturing defect or something. I would like to implant another one, but if they can get killed by large magnets, that will make me think twice about it. Glass tags don't get killed by the magnets…
  • Problems of the type you want to hear about are rare or non-existent. No deaths, for example. Cases where there was some limited nerve damage have occurred, though. Things like small numb spots. At least one situation where someone had an area of skin that seemed to cause a sensation in a different area when touched. I've…
    in Problems? Comment by aviin June 2016
  • Sorry about my lack of presence here for the last week or so. Got very busy with other things for a bit there. The compression bandages did the trick with the fluid build up and everything was basically healed. But then I did something perhaps stupid... Awhile back, and I'd completely forgotten about it, I'd ordered a 1"…
  • I can totally understand that. For those interested, though, here's a link for depleted uranium. They don't ship outside the U.S., though. And here's a weird bit of trivia... That company was founded by the infamous Bob Lazar. There are quite a few sources for getting uranium, honestly, but United Nuclear has a reputation…
  • Will do, but I think the compression is going to fix this right up. All the symptoms are disappearing in rapid fashion.
  • Uranium can be sourced pretty easily inside the United States. I have some; a 25 gram piece of depleted uranium and a 10 gram vial of undepleted (aka U-NAT) uranium dioxide (supposedly from a pre-WW2 pottery factory cache). They sit displayed in my living room, along with 1 gram of "original recipe" yellowcake uranium…
  • I greatly appreciate the replies. I'm going to say the cause is the traumatic procedure. I definitely went overboard on the pocket size because of the difficulties I was having. That, and I think removing and reapplying band-aids and/or tape was pulling on the skin enough that it would cause separation between the layers…
  • I understand what you're saying about not feeling qualified, and I can totally respect that. Keep in mind, though, that technically speaking, most of us are not qualified. Before I did my first implant, I'd not even so much as gutted a fish, let alone skinned an animal. The extent of my experience with using implements on…
  • @Meanderpaul, the firefly injectors would be the correct size for injecting 3mm diameter magnets, though you wouldn't want to try it with a thin disc (m31). The m36, though, would work well with it. Perhaps @AlexSmith would be willing to sell those injectors separately from the fireflies? My only concern (and it was been a…
  • So..... I've had a complication with this implant. On the morning of the 11th, I noticed that the tissue that covers the implant was looking a little red and was just a tiny bit itchy. I've been using band-aids on and off on it all this time and I assumed it was related to the adhesive (I still cover it while I sleep). I…
  • @Diethyl, try the tape first. I've used tape myself twice to tent skin. Good strong duct tape works very well.
  • Oh, yes! Super awesome!
  • @Diethyl, regarding tenting the skin, I implanted one of the glass tags in my left hand (my xEM) without tenting the skin at all. You can hook the tip of the needle into the skin, then sort of tilt the tip of the needle up and away from the hand so that the needle is somewhat tenting the skin all by itself. I can't really…
  • I'm intrigued by your comment, @Benbeezy, that this one was not as bad as the LED one. Obviously, my point of view is different from that of a viewer, but if it were me watching the two, I can't help but think I'd be more squeamish while watching this one. It's the scalpel, I guess. I did use one briefly in the LED video,…
  • This is a good starter video in my opinion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_JpPMIriAI
    in -- Comment by aviin June 2016
  • I've ordered some paper tape and am very intrigued by the idea of trying plumbers tape. Hmmm... No immediate plans for my next implant, though, and I don't expect to be taping this one for much longer, so I don't know when I'll get to try the new tapes out. It's good to have supplies on hand, though. In fact, I ordered 30…
  • I had a very similar idea for a spatula shaped instrument for the NFC light. I posted a quick mock-up pic over in that thread. (link) I should have marked out the width. Depth, though, should have been fine from the start. As @katzevonstich said, connective tissue was the issue. The probe would simply stretch the…
  • As I recall, NdFeB magnets have a theoretical cap of N60. N52 is just what's typically commercially available.
  • As do I, as do I...
  • A quick update... The hand is quite comfortable now. Typing is no longer painful. A scab has fully formed across the incision. There is some minor swelling, but nothing at all alarming. A dog bite in the same area several years ago swelled far worse than this (a couple scars from that are visible in the video if you look…
  • A quick bit of research shows that the RFID components used in these machines are made by a company called Impinj. Further research shows these guys seem to mainly do UHF, so I'm betting it is a UHF tag. Beyond that, I have nothing else to contribute.
  • An RFID, when powered up, spits out its ID. Assuming a chip was made that could contain multiple IDs, there would be no way for the chip to know which ID to provide a given query. Supposing someone packaged two chips into a single implant, if both were operating on the same frequency, both would output their ID when…
  • @yotonyy, shipping to Ohio from Cyberise.me is about a week and a half if that helps at all.
  • Now I'm going to take a few moments to talk about the stress I was feeling during this. The pain was more than expected. As I've made known, I don't use anesthetic. I feel like I have a pretty good handle on pain and know how to continue to operate reasonably normally despite it. It's also something that gets easier each…
  • And now, the write-up. Obviously, everything was disinfected prior to use. The bowl in the rear of the video contains 91% isopropyl alcohol. The bowl in the front contains sterile saline. The bottle I pour onto the site several times during the procedure is 91% isopropyl alcohol. The scalpel is a number 15 disposable. I do…
  • @Bioboy, out of curiousity, what video on Youtube got you interested in trying to implant? I love watching implant videos and am curious as to what qualities in whatever video it was made you decide you'd like to do it.
  • Truth be told, this hurt more than the nfc light. And without further ado... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X77rHFM-dxE (EDIT: The write-up will be tomorrow. I'm not wanting to type anymore tonight. Sorry.)
  • Slicing is a bit different than poking, but not so different as you might imagine. The video is uploading now and will be posted here very shortly. The write-up, though, will be a little later. My hand hurts and typing is unpleasant right now.