@fraggersparks and I are in Australia
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Biden’s 100 day wearing masks should help, but the problem will come down to the people.
It sounds like a request so people SHOULD take to that a little more open-mindedly rather than viewed as impeding on peoples rights.
Along with Hand sanitiser, reduced number gatherings, isolation of infected people, use of contact tracing apps or similar and you guys should hopefully start to see some progress
I also heard there is a plan for 100 million vaccines within the 100 days.
Is there a cost to that?
Do you have to pay for Covid tests in the USA?
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Is it ever! I work in research, and we have several studies that are getting busy.
It doesn’t help they took some of our space, to have more room for covid patients.
Yep. Hit it on the head there.
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Will be no cost.
It’s kinda expected that 1/2 the people will shout about how awful and unnecessary the vaccine is, then go get it anyway when it becomes available. Go figure, people.
The big problem isn’t going to be getting people to go along, it’s Covid Fatigue. There was a bunch of rules that got put into place in the beginning that make no sense as we learned more about how the virus worked. Instead of focusing our efforts by re-writing the rules to fit the facts, we just added more and more rules. Even though we now know most of them are pointless. When you’ve got all that to wade through, most people lose focus, or just give up.
For Example:
Early on, it was a big concern that it was touch contact spreading. So my employer hired an outfit to fumigate the entire bathroom and breakroom with a degreaser once a week and wipe everything down.
Now we know it’s primarily airborne transmission. Instead of re-focusing on that, we doubled down on the cleaning. We have no real focus on person to person airborne prevention, but by God those bathrooms shine. If we have a formal meeting, then people wear masks, for about 15 minutes. Any other time there’s nothing. They’re just too busy worrying about yesterday’s problems to have any energy left to address more likely issues / vectors.
With some actual leadership across the country, and a dose of reality, we could’ve cut this off before it got as hideously out of control as it is now. There’s no turning back now. It’s too widespread to contain. Contact tracing is borderline useless now. You could’ve gotten it from a dozen sources.
Bottem line, the damage is done, and we’re gonna suffer until we have widespread uptake on vaccination.
P.S. Another fun fact. My employer is STILL having visitors sign a form affirming that they have not recently visited a country considered to be a Covid hotspot (by which they mean China). As far as I know, we ARE the Covid hotspot of the world.
@Amal, Have you gotten any feedback from the suppliers? Curious what their attitude might be going forward.
Ok I was able to dig out my Gauss meter.
Because there is no max hold option with this thing, and the sensor itself is super picky about placement, I had to stare at it while I worked the sensor over the surface of the magnet (hence no pictures of the actual values).
Here is the 2mm thick, 3mm diameter N52 magnetic core resting on top of the Titan.
Here are the numbers
With the meter set to the 20k range and an tight average across 5 test units, we are seeing the following numbers.
- 4.40 (4400Gs) is the max observed peak of the raw magnet core used inside the Titan
- 2.85 (2850Gs) is the max observed peak at the surface of the Titan
You can see how the Gauss field strength of the magnet core weakens exponentially with distance. If you’ve ever played with magnets at all you should be very familiar with this phenomenon. That “snapping” sensation when you stick a magnet to something ferrous or to another magnet is the field gaining strength on an exponential curve as the magnet closes the last fractions of a millimeter. Even the difference of the last 0.4mm nearly doubles the field strength.
This is why we worked so hard on the m31 magnet… the designed coating was only 0.013mm thick! If it had worked, it would ensure the maximum sensitivity due to lowest possible inertia and the maximum Gauss strength at the surface of the skin for any given installation. Alas, it was not meant to be… so instead we have the Titan… a magnet implant that is designed to last forever.
Core integrity
To ensure core integrity, I performed another Gauss test.
- 2.90 (2900Gs) is the max observed peak with 0.38mm material between the surface of the magnet core and the sensor. This test uses an untreated core and 0.38mm thick plastic material.
The plastic spacer material is a stand-in for the titanium shielding around the magnetic core of the Titan. The fact the Gauss readings of this core + spacer are on par with the Titan validates that the magnetic core inside the Titan has not be affected by the heat of welding in any permanent way.
More test data to be posted soon… just digging out my force meter…
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I’ll probably get mine in the day after it arrives. The second I have a shipping confirmation I’ll book with my artist. Can’t wait!
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Those of you installing in the first couple days better be bringing back videos or at least pictures
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I always film it. It’s somehow easier if I’m looking at it through my screen and not directly.
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Whaaat D:
Phew, panic over…
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I am actually encouraged greatly by this because this m31 (3mm x 1mm) …
is covered with only 0.2mm of material registered only 0.835 (835Gs).
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This looks very interesting… has anyone the values of the two different Haworth-magnets, by chance?
I was able to test a Haworth magnet at one point during m31 design. Here are my notes from that time…
Haworth (w/o silicone 3.2mm x 1.65mm, with silicone 4.1mm x 2.7mm)
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1850Gs silicone surface
3231Gs magnet surface
Now for some more Titan stuff
I like this video because you can see the effect on the Titan, but once the Titan starts to swivel, you can also see the poly encased m31 turn in reaction to that… like in a magnetic rube goldberg kind of way. The interplay of the magnetic fields here is beautiful… I just wish I could see it instead of imagine it.
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Thanks a lot! So our Titan is actually quite a bit stronger, that’s nice to know 
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I wanted to say it but didn’t… People in the biohacker community seem to get really attached to one persons product in a very weird way almost feels cultish in some cases. 
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Not only will this one last forever but it’s also the best! I am feeling better and better about dropping $500 on announcement day
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I’m now working on the pouching and custom processing trays required to run magnets through a commercial sterilization process.
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haha well I think my design was too large… commercial 3D printers only offered a single material and the total cost was $2000 hah no way. I broke the tray up into 4 quadrants … but it’s still quite large… still quite expensive to get printed, but more importantly the print schedule puts receipt of the trays well into January. That’s not good.
Anyone here able to print these trays in ABS? The smaller tray has these dimensions;
I am totally willing to pay for prints… the issue is speed… speed is of the essence here.
The STL is as follows;
titan h2o2 processing tray 2.stl (1.4 MB)