Jack's Brain

Healing is going very well.

Mental note: stay away from harddrive magnets.

Although the tegaderm definitely had some life left in it, the tip of the finger wasn’t sealed because the incision had bled a tiny bit and loosened the grip.

(Phew.

I’m finally home from school for the summer, and I have one precious week before I start back to work in San Francisco.

Two points I wanted to clarify based on some great feedback here: My last post is not recommending that lido with epi be used – plain old lidocaine is much more easy to manage and use safely.

Disclaimer: I am not a physician, nor am I responsible for, or qualified to make, advise, or influence, medical decisions based on the content of this post.

It’s really hard to be a 19 year old and be active in the development community.

I’ve got finals for the next two weeks, and magnet implant plans are on hold until I’m at home… stay tuned!

One of my previous Arduino projects was an Engineering 1 final project where we had to receive a small foam ball into a box 24″x12″x12″, then launch it into the next box that is immediately next to ours.

I busted out the shapelock and made the first of a number of prototypes for the socket that will be my magnet implant computer interface. the general design I’m planning for is a full finger socket, most likely to the metacarpophalangeal joint.

The Carnage I attempted magnet insertion myself and went at it with a friend all scrubbed up to assist.

These two are the guts of my interface plans: Arduino Leonardo The Arduino Leonardo is an awesome board.

Prepping for magnet implant surgery tonight!!

Today I took my first stab at coding some general magnetic detection code that will work with a magnetometer to detect finger presence, finder flexion, and finger extension, all based on magnet proximity to make a magnet HID.

Well Trucrypt just went nuts.

I love you, version control.

It’s been a long time since I’ve set up a website I can call entirely my own.