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I'm reminded of the people putting open source firmware on insulin pumps. You have to either really trust yourself, or really distrust the system, to do someth

• cultofmetatron 4y ago
  not diabetic but if my life depended on firmware in a embedded device, you can best be sure I'd want the source code out there so that people smarter than I and not just people at the company could audit the shit out of that source code.
• telcal 4y ago
  There's a huge community of people actively doing this. Type 1 diabetics were tired of waiting for a "closed loop" (aka artificial pancreas) insulin delivery system so they developed their own. One open source project is called Loop https://loopkit.github.io/loopdocs/ https://loopkit.github.io/loopdocs/ It's very mature and I know a few people who have been using it for years.