I just found the video that I was featured in about biohacking and transhumanism for Channel 4 in the UK!

My team won second prize at SCU’s annual BroncoHack. We build a system for leakers and whistleblowers in developing nations to securely get their message out, and won $1000! Check out our plan overview and source code

The NFC is doing fantastic. It’s about 5mm from the injection site, which is closer than ideal but further than I thought we hit, fairly safe from extrusion. Looking forward to getting my antenna and recover chip in the mail!! (You can see the faint outline of the chip in the pictures proximal to the injection site)

I just finished building my new PC, affectionately named Molly. Check out my build gallery!

Healing continues. The site was extremely tender yesterday, and I find myself accidentally using that hand which can put painful pressure on the implant, so I’ve started wearing a sling to stop myself from using that hand. It’s extreme, but I’d rather three days of inconvenience than a rejected implant. 

There’s been minimal swelling and redness at the site. There was 5mm or so of radial redness all of yesterday, but that has diffused today. Considering I’ve had triple antibacterial ointment on it since the implantation, and it’s not warm or discharging anything remarkable, I’m inclined to think that the biggest risk of infection has passed (although I’m watching it closely). 

Really happy – looks like it’s closing with no infection. Fingers crossed it doesn’t extrude!! 

As a break from midterms, I did my NFC implant today. It was fairly unremarkable, except for a brief scare in the middle where some unclear communication resulted in an accidental dismantling of the plunger while a CM deep into my hand. We were able to fix it, though, and the rest went off without a hitch!

I’m doing the transponder implantation this weekend! I will soon be a Near-Field enabled human :D

…for some volunteer work I’m doing, and I realized that vaccinations and needle sticks get a whole lot easier to deal with after you’ve performed surgery on and sutured yourself. 

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