I was planning on replacing my parylene ones with titans when the day comes, wether thatās in a month or a couple years. And honestly I would take the opportunity to get more at the same time.
I hope things will change or a new alternative will exist by then.
While there is some choice in lifting magnets out there the titan is pretty much the only viable sensing one nowdays. For that reason, I guess that titans would sell even if they got more expensive?
Actually my goal with the Titan is to ultimately lower the price. The primary reason it doesnāt sell much is cost. Thereās no reason for it to be as expensive as it is besides the vendor costs and logistics moving the parts around between them.
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I have to wonder if it is possible to use magnetron sputtering deposition? I found this article.
Perhaps if it is worth pursuing TheThoughtEmporium would let you borrow their equipment for a couple test pieces.
Trying to setup vivokey in Unityās Authentification (Player Accounts) pluginā¦
I assume the client ID is the one I get in the vivokey app by creating a custom app as per the docs
Not sure if the two other fields are just arbitrary names or something specific though. Any ideas?
Edit: this is vaguely helpful , kinda : OpenID Connect
Iām going to assume I can put āoidc-vivokeyā and " https://api.vivokey.com/openid/"
Edit: nope, says Invalid oicd parameter
@amal ?
Stupid question,
Been watching a bunch of electroplating of 3D prints lately (some gorgeous stuff)
Could you electroplate titanium onto a magnet?
I know thereās an art about what metals have to bond to each otherā¦ but wouldnāt electroplating be thicker and heartier and therefore more reliable than like a pvd coating?
I assume the hermetic seal argument is the same here?
I did some googling after I spitballed, apparently titanium doesnāt play nicely with electroplating processes
Iāve gone through pvd, cvd, ald, and a few other methods of laying down titanium and titanium nitride, and itās all imperfect for various reasons.
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Sorry to hijack this thread but just had a random thought. Anyone remember the Phantom Eight characters from NCIS who had rfid implants allowing them access to any military facility in the world?
@amal you werenāt co-writer on that show were you? 
itās not worth doing imho at this point because the current core is getting shut downā¦ the new API is basically feature complete at this point, and iām going to be having some talks about building out a new IdP with OIDC and SSO/SAML
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Noted, Iāll put this on hold then. Itās not on the priority list for now , I just wanted to familiarize myself.
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Note OKTA has Acquired Auth-0
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Oh and another random thought, the problem of powering implants. Well what about a kinetic clutch that charges a capacitor? Would work better if placed in arm due to range of motion .
Sorry, I didnt mean to hijack you.
Or a mini capacitor that charges off being read. If the xsiid can harvest energy to an led then surely it can harvest it for storage to a capacitor?
Canāt derail a derailment thread. I think there are issues with implanting capacitors. I canāt give the specifics but Iām sure someone here can.
Generally speaking itās technically possible but practically impractical ā¦ capacitors lose charge so quickly through internal leakage that itās not really all that viable for most things people want to do with powered implantsā¦ and mechanical components are large and ā¦ mechanical ew haha
Yup it can. What do you want to do with that energy though? The strength of capacitors is that they can charge and discharge very quickly, unlike a chemical battery. Unfortunately their energy density is poor, and they lose voltage very quickly as they discharge, also unlike a chemical battery.
Hereās a breakdown I did for someone who asked this before.