Building an Open Source Artificial Pancreas
This page will always be updated with the most recent version of this talk.
Full session: The latest version is 1.8 which was given at Pittsburgh Tech Fest on 08/12/2020.
Lightning Talk: The latest version is 1.3 which was given at !!Con on 5/11/2019.
Slides/Code/Diagrams
Slides (full, PDF) Slides (lightning talk)
Videos
Strange Loop (2019, 40 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5prZU5RxkZ4
Older videos: PyCon (2019, 30 min version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kT1VoX7VAs !!Con (2019, 10 min version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgxhCTs4S3c
History
| Date | Type | Version | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-08-17 | Lightning Talk | 1.0 | Self.Conference |
| 2018-09-27 | Lightning Talk | 1.1 | Strange Loop |
| 2019-01-09 | Lightning Talk | 1.2 | Code Mash |
| 2019-03-03 | Conf Session | 1.0 | Penguicon |
| 2019-03-04 | Conf Session | 1.1 | PyCon US |
| 2019-03-11 | Lightning Talk | 1.3 | !!Con |
| 2019-06-07 | Conf Session | 1.2 | Self.Conference |
| 2019-08-07 | Conf Session | 1.3 | THAT Conference |
| 2019-09-14 | Conf Session | 1.4 | Strange Loop |
| 2019-10-11 | Opening Keynote | 1.5 | DevSpace Technical Conference |
| 2019-11-08 | Conf Session | 1.6 | Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas Celebration of Women in Computing |
| 2020-01-07 | Conf Session | 1.7 | Code Mash |
| 2020-08-13 | Conf Session | 1.8 | Pittsburgh Tech Fest |
Abstract/Description
Have you ever thought about what open source software or hardware could achieve? What if it could help improve people’s lives by solving some of their health problems?
After the medical tech industry kept promising a system to help automatically manage insulin for type 1 diabetic people and never delivering, some people got together to find ways to do it with the tech they already had. Over the past few years, a “closed-loop” system has been developed to algorithmically regulate people’s insulin levels. After reverse engineering bluetooth sensors and 915 MHz insulin pumps, the system became possible. As a diabetic, I also built this system and saw my sugar values stabilize much more than I could ever achieve doing it manually myself. Now I’m working on contributing back to the projects as well.
I want to talk about this system, from a technical side as well as a personal side. You’ll learn about OpenAPS (the open artificial pancreas system) and how it works, what problems it solves, and its safety and security concerns. You’ll see how the system has helped me and what this means for my health now and in the future. Ultimately, you’ll see how we, as software developers, can change people’s lives through the code we write.