I realize Amal’s got enough going on, but why all three the same colour? It seems to me that this is begging for a RGB variation.
(assuming equal brightness)
Probably because that’s what most of us have ordered/asked for 
There’s the Blinky custom on DT, like being at the candy store staring at the walls of pick-and-mix!
The more I look at it, the more I find the workmanship exquisite. Everything is lined up great, the edges are clean. Considering the bitch of a time I had making my paper-and-packing-tape FauxNExT under magnification with sharp tools, that’s remarkable. I mean in real life, the actual object isn’t all that big really.
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Yeah it has to be clean surfaces and cut lines to keep the risk of surface biofouling to a minimum. You definitely don’t want to give any kind of a foothold that bacteria can use to set up and establish a colony.
Speaking of that, I didn’t get any notification. I’m assuming Michelle is swamped? Or is there any other issue?
I’m not impatient, it’s just that I want to make sure it gets here before Lassi does. I’ve experienced how prompt customs can be here. Took em over a month to release a parcel from another EU country once. Amazing…
Pretty sure I disabled lock bytes on flexnext but maybe some got through… probably yours is unaltered. Run the Dangerous NFC tool on it to sort it out.
Btw what does limited release actually mean? How long will it be available? I would be so surprised when I finally want to order one and it is gone…
hah well… it means that these are “artisan” implants… I make all flex implants by hand myself and, well, sometimes I tire of slaving over the workbench and want to switch back to desk work… then after a while I long for the bench again… so basically it just means I don’t want to commit to availability… but chances are I will keep making these well into the future… it’s just, they might be on backorder from time to time.
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Curious thought, since I have seen this thing put in the back of the hand would the sheer size of this thing cause cross talk with a implant in the usual spot in the thumb webbing?
There was an image somewhere of this thing working next to a standard reader. I’ve been assuming the safest thing to do so far would to have a dedicated hand for this.
EDIT: It was in this same thread… it’s too early
I need more hands
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I haven’t run out of space on my forelimbs yet, but if I had, well… let’s just say some of us have enough space lower down for a flexNExT 
Would it really be a problem tho?
While using f.e. NExT in the webbing, the flexNExT would be at a very high angle, almost 90°.
Same if you have your NExT in the edge of a hand.
@Ottomagne May I ask how your healing process is going? Did you experience any rotation, hematome, swelling, pain? Just curious 
Absolutely! I’m planning on doing a full write up after I take out the stitches and can get my hands on an ACR122U to try the “underneath” read (since my phone isn’t powerful enough to do that on its own), but the jist of it is:
I’ve had no real problems at all. My implant hasn’t rotated as far as I can tell, no blood pooling above the implant, very little swelling or pain. I do believe part of this as been pretty diligent aftercare - I wore an ACE bandage over my implant site for about an hour at a time for the first 5 days or so to maintain slight amounts of pressure on the site to help prevent blood pooling, and I was taking ibuprofen religiously (4x200mg every 6 hours, but that was also to help with my motorcycle accident injuries). What little swelling was there went away within about 3 or 4 days, and I’ve been able to get really good consistent reads with my Pixel 3. The range isn’t much to brag about, but that’s more the Pixel’s problem than the implant’s (which is why I’m trying to hold off until I get an ACR122U to make any judgment calls on my site choice). Looking at it now, the stitches seem a little irritated, but I’m not sure if that’s true or if they’re just red because they’re healing up. They should be ready to come out in a couple days, if they’re not already ready. Here’s a picture for posterity though:
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Thanks! Glad to hear everything went so smooth!
And it looks really good, considering it’s about one week old now - nice healing
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Nicely healing.
Interesting that the incision was done lengthwise. Looking at my wrist, my first thought was that it should be done across the wrist, so the scar line blends in with the natural creases.
What’s that shiny wrinkly-looking material over the implant? Is that “tattoo artist shrink-wrap” - whatever it’s called - or has your skin turned into something alien?
Also, whoever did the suture looks pretty skilled.
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Honestly, my installer asked me which way I thought he should do the incision, and I chose that way because I thought it made the most sense from the way we were situated (me sitting in a chair across a table from him). It seemed to work really well - he had a ton of leverage and didn’t really have to worry about the rest of my body while he worked. Honestly, it’d probably look better in the long run if he had done it across the wrist, but I kinda dig the lengthwise scar, so it’s not a bother for me 
The shiny stuff is Tegaderm! My installer recommended it for aftercare, and it’s been wonderful stuff to use. Bought a pack of 8, but I’ve only had to go through 4 so far (mostly due to applying them too earlier when the wound was still wet from me cleaning it).
I was honestly really impressed by this guy’s skill and professionalism. I had checked out his work before, and was already really impressed beforehand, but the implant went more smoothly than I ever could have anticipated. I was honestly expecting an arduous process getting it put in, but I can honestly say that it really wasn’t any more painful than getting chipped through an injector. He took a couple different passes on the stitches too - if he wasn’t happy with how it was closing up, he would just pull it out and redo it again.
Yeah, that sure looks pro. The only time I had the occasion of seeing sutures that clean was the “one-wire” job my knee surgeon did 35 years ago - that is, a single run of catgut snaking within the thickness of the skin from one lip of the wound to the other. Totally invisible from the outside, and leaves a single line that disappears after a few months if you don’t go under the sun, but a real screamer to pull out
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