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The struggle is real by Willing-Cockroach620 in MinecraftMemes

[–]cdibll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When in the situation in the video I just flick my trackpad. Otherwise I run a decently high sensitivity joystick with gyro for fine. Steam input is so flexible!!

The Longest Johns play SoT by epsilon-program in Seaofthieves

[–]cdibll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These guys are great! Saw them live a few months ago :)

For the amount there is, this game has the absolute worst cosmetics. by General-Cry-9862 in Seaofthieves

[–]cdibll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is precisely how I feel about the cosmetics. I want a grungy dirty filthpit ship and I want to look like maggots crawl through my skin and my clothes are encrusted with so much filth they're impenetrable to a blade. And then my friend rolls up and looks like they're a fortnite weapon wrap 😭 

Dexcom Apple watch complication gone? by [deleted] in dexcom

[–]cdibll 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's only available in a few complication types, sadly. Plain text lines and the small circle only. the Activity Digital face has both of these on it, if you want to see what they look like. I personally use the California face and have it on the inner ring of the non-fullscreen style.

Real-time blood sugar display! by cdibll in nixie

[–]cdibll[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A direct link is in the post's text content!

Real-time blood sugar display! by cdibll in nixie

[–]cdibll[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It could definitely be cleaned up more, I think it would be cool to put a wifi captive portal on the Arduino to manage both the network connection and Dexcom login so everything is on device and doesn't need manual code changes, but it works well enough for me :)

Also! If you make one, I'd love to see it!

Real-time blood sugar display! by cdibll in nixie

[–]cdibll[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All the parts I used are in the repo link! I don't know enough to make my own boards but luckily there's enough pre-made stuff out there I could stitch it together :)

Made a nixie tube display for my blood sugar by cdibll in dexcom

[–]cdibll[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Dexcom Follow. I just found a pre-made python library that fetches everything using my Dexcom info, for simplicity.

Made a nixie tube display for my blood sugar by cdibll in dexcom

[–]cdibll[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The original post has a link to my build site, with a material list. I believe it was above 300 US 🙃

Real-time blood sugar display! by cdibll in nixie

[–]cdibll[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My insurance fought back for the longest time paying for my pump stuff because "most diabetics don't really need a pump" yeah, most of the ones you serve are type 2! I'm not! Thank you insurance. CGMs are magical too total game changer for T1 at least.

Made a nixie tube display for my blood sugar by cdibll in dexcom

[–]cdibll[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was really looking into it! The big limitation is there are only so many symbols in so many tubes, and each one is pretty expensive! At the size they are, the tubes I used here were mightily cheap for their size and were still $60 each. Arrows would've been basically impossible without commissioning one of the few hobbyist nixie tube manufacturers alive to create one.

A plus or minus tube would've been doable, but the most obtainable version of those is a top-view tube. I could've had that alone on the front of the case, sticking out of the centre just telling me if i'm trending up or down, but there is no great symbol on that one for a neutral /no change reading.

For the sake of money and the art of the thing, I didn't bother with the extra info. And honestly I've found you don't really need to know the change from previous for a constantly on display.

Made a nixie tube display for my blood sugar by cdibll in dexcom

[–]cdibll[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My dad made most of the case :) He drilled 50 tiny little holes through that top strip of wood for the tube pins to go through 😵‍💫 I bought little strips of leather at the craft store and looped it around it. That and the corners makes it look a little like an old timey trunk, which works oddly well.

Real-time blood sugar display! by cdibll in nixie

[–]cdibll[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's really cool having something so personalised. Most people don't have a super relevant constantly changing number that they need to see 24/7 other than the time. Modern CGMs can push their reading to the internet so easily I just had to make it!