I like your formula, but maybe I need my morning coffee to belive you.
The image is a little blurry but Iām guessing those are thin PCB antennas? I am probably wrong about that.
Yep tiny little flex pcb antennas.
Yes rosco it will be copper unless they went to some crazy manufacturer 
It aināt āmyā formula: donāt you believe in the power of Pi? 
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Not, if you know what I mean, but only because of lockdown.
Otherwise I would just watch.
But I thought the way the needle was going in at the angle it wasnāt cutting a hole but rather a single slit?
Sigh
Needles are weird and confusing
Iām just going to smile and nod at this point
You can install a chip with a with of about 8mm with a 4g needle. They sayā¦ I am yet to belive it, but you can watch this meanhile
Erā¦ A cylindrical object is bound to make a round hole. It turns into a slit when you remove it and the round pocket collapses.
Thatās what I originally thought in that other thread,
but there was the whole āitās not just a holeā needle cutting angles Etc
I give up lol
Skin is a weird and confusing organ, and needles only add weirdnessā¦
Iāll just give the nice needle people, the things I want under my skin, and let them work out what needle magic needs to happen
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Of course itās just a hole: the needle is round. What else could it be?
Not really: think of it as leather that aināt dead yet
My flex wedge needed neither. And itās a larger-than-usual wedge.
Although with no numbing, you do need a brave soul to get it in. But I would rather have the option to feel pain but get what I want, so I am sure others around would be happy to be offered the same.
You gotta love some Engurishu!!
I miss being able to order Cho-Ko-Re-To Mi-Ru-Ku and Melon Pan at a ćć³å±! 
afaik as well.
Better start small and be able to grow, than start big and fumble epicly.
Would these happen to be the same size as the nfc nails for the easy option of adding two blinkies???
This information is really helpful!. I will check out with our piercer network to see if they can get a larger gauge and how they feel about performing those installations once they have finished a couple of normal chip implants.
I know is not so complex, but for some of them this is still new.
Remember in Japan many of them havenāt had the chance to even see a microchip implant in real life. So even that some have had implants already, for Japan 2021 is the year of the cyborg.
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There is a detailed run about my needle flex wedge install here
Worth noting that was an assisted self install performed at home (courtesy of Lockdown).
I do have many years of experience as a piercer, though, hence why I was comfortable with guiding a complete freshman.
I did use a bit of lidocaine just to avoid having any involuntary movements while someone with no experience was poking a needle near my vases and nervesā¦ but I was still feeling most of it.
Would not be a pleasurable experience to do with 0 numbing, but as I said, I would rather do that with no PM than not be able to do that.
Yeah, I still have some friends in the bodymod sector in Tokyoā¦
It is surprisingly prudishā¦
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Funny enough, I live in a very bureaucratic country, with tons of really good and well-trained piercers and modders, and a license for piercers doesnāt even exist here. They basically set up their own standards and made some clubs to keep up the quality, but from the side of the government, there are no real guidelines considering apprenticeship, training or anything like that - I could basically go and open up a piercing studio tomorrow, if I liked to.
I think it is interesting how much of a problem bodymods can be in Japan, considering it has an amazing tradition of great tattoo artists and considering the first well-known implants were called āYakuza beadsā for some reason^^
Chocolate Milk! Hellā¦ didnāt expect to learn yet another language here 
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Sort ofā¦
At the same time that we see Japanese tattoos as a beautiful tradition, it has always been attributed to a certain class or caste.
Such as the āIne Zumiā and other less famous orders of tattooed monks from the feudal timesā¦
To the Yakuza of modern days.
Yet, in Japan āordinary peopleā are generally ānot meantā to be tattooed. It is seen almost as an affront.
For exampleā¦ Onsens (Japanese āpublic bathsā), public pools, many hotels, even certain beaches/parksā¦ do not allow anyone with tattoos in their premises.
And even if you go into alternative circles over thereā¦ Sailor Jerry, New School and some very āobviously westernā style are usually appreciated, but what we call ātraditional Japaneseā styleā¦ is seriously shunned there!
Because for a Japanese alternative to have them is many times seen either as an ofense or as a āposer gangstaā attitude. And it gets even worst for a Gaijin to have it.
Here in Europe we can have our faces covered in tattoos and still manage to become a manager in a respectable company (harder, but achievable). In places like Japanā¦ to be that alternative is a lifestyle choice.
Well youāre right about body modification being reserved to the elite in Japan:
I just discovered why people are so big on contactless payment over here: I tried to get gas at the gas station, and the contact reader plain didnāt work
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Thatās either cold, or really coldā¦ units unclear lol
A few years ago it was -30 here and I had to help unbury a bunch of stuck cars in our parking lot
Quick permanent transition from ā snow is magical and I love the coldā to ā grumpy I hate the snow grinchā