OpenAPS: a DIY Artificial Pancreas

Since I was three years old, I've lived with Type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is a chronic illness (cannot be cured) that requires insulin injections, blood glucose monitoring, and rigorous tracking of food and exercise. In April of 2016, I built, tested, and implemented an OpenAPS (Open-source Artificial Pancreas System) DIY artificial pancreas.

My OpenAPS rig uses a Raspberry Pi single-board computer, an off-the-shelf RF transmitter, and software written by the OpenAPS community and myself to talk to my existing medical devices, make decisions on my behalf and then enact them, to help me more-precisely control my diabetes and keep me healthy.

See the link below for an article I wrote explaining what living with Type 1 diabetes is like, the details behind how this system works, and why I had to hack my own medical devices to make something like this a reality.

LINK TO ARTICLE