Yeah, but my guess that is COVID will be the catalyst for the implementation of a more general health pass. Itās the stuff of nightmare if you ask me. But it if has to happen, Iād rather it be under my skin than in my wallet or my cellphone, because it would make a lot more sense there.
Since itās still early in that particular game, and health passes are a perfect use case for implantable devices, Vivokey / DT would be the perfect player and should chip in, is what Iām saying.
I agree. Thereās lots of Orwellian whacky shit Iād rather the governments (and corporations) of the world not mess around with. Health passports is one (cause it will end up just being another way to suppress minority groups). If anyoneās going to get involved I would rather it be companies like VivoKey who have idealogical motives beyond profit.
Well now, I donāt know about that - and my natural instinct is never to presume good intentions from a for-profit. But like I said before, DT (and by extension, Vivokey), is one of the very few companies that I trust almost blindly.
So yeah, if anyoneās Orwellian health pass chip should go under my skin, itās Vivokeyās.
Well, thanks to USPS Informed delivery, it looks like the Pinecil is coming Monday. Could also be the pinephone, but less likely (havenāt gotten a pre-order email that I should have got, and the $50 insurance makes it more likely to be the Pinecil). If itās the Pinecil Iāll try it out for a few hours and post my initial thoughts for those that wanted me to (and those that are currently awaiting theirs). I need to do some soldering for a project anyways, so itāll come in handy.
Right now Iām working on an NFC back cover for the pinephone for implant use, so Iām excited to receive the parts for that (plus the phone itself). The 6 pogo pins on the back for expansion contain connections for an I2C bus, so my plan is just to build a PN532 breakout board into a 3D printed back cover, or a 3D printed TPU case. Itāll likely have to be the latter, due to the small details needed for getting the back cover to snap on right. Iāve had good luck with the HiLetGo breakout from Amazon, will probably use that, only $10. It looks like the pinephone expansion port just shows up as a standard I2C bus in linux, and libnfc appears to support the PN532 over I2C natively.
Since the pinephone runs pure linux, Iām wondering if I can get NFC login working. Not sure if thereās even support for alternate lock screen authentication methods (currently itās just a 6 digit PIN), but thatās the beauty of open-source. Once classes let out in about 2 weeks, Iām gonna have a ton of free time anyways. Since I can boot off of a micro SD, at least it should be easy to recover if I fuck up login.
You know, I went through literally every question of yours answering it, and it turns out this is what did it. Was only using 12V to power the xAC, turning my power supply up to 15V made it work! This community is the fucking best.
Now you probably want to start winding it back to find when it stops operatingā¦ or up from 12V and find your minimum input voltage.
It should operate off a car battery, so the Voltage should be around 12.6V
Weirdly enough, if I go down from 15V, itāll run reliably up to about 12.8V. But if I start low and go high, the relay wonāt start latching until past 13V
Yeah, thatās normal. Inductors are like that. They resist changes to the current flow. If youāre trying to force the coil to allow current when it was not, it will take higher voltage to drive. If youāre trying to stop the current from flowing when it already was, you will need to drop it to a lower voltage to cut off. Thatās their primary purpose.
Darn, wasnāt considering buying another implant anytime soon, definitely not this year, but an xM1 for $84 might be too good to pass upā¦ would really round out my implant capabilitiesā¦
At minimum Iāll probably end up buying a shirt or two
