There have been some updates in two reference pages on this site: Insulin Pump Choices, and Closed-loop pumps in Australia. Partly it’s just updating things with new dates, but there are some new things in there which may excite some of you. Such as: AndroidAPS has reached version 3.0 this month. It’s available now. New …
The Australian pump market continues to slowly develop, and my Insulin Pump Choices article has had another update. Notable developments since the last update include: Announcement of the Medtronic 780G pump. Initial launch of the Dexcom G6 CGM integration for the YpsoPump. Information about future pump options such as the Tandem Mobi and t:slim X3. Along …
An Omnipod can contain between 85-200U of insulin. But the pod is only likely to last 72-80 hours: 3 days plus an 8-hour grace period before shutdown. Ideally we put enough in there to last until we’re ready to replace it: we can’t top it up! The only way we get to measure how much …
Just some observations from recent experience. For the past few days I’ve been using another Omnipod DASH with my closed-loop system. This is also being tested by many people with the latest beta version of AndroidAPS 3.0. Along the way I’ve noticed a few things. These do not seem to be anything related to beta …
The options for loopable pumps in Australia are changing, so I thought it might be useful to offer up a quick visual comparison, as most people don’t get to see all these pumps in person. So here’s a collection of pumps stacked up beside each other. These have been arranged vaguely in order of bulk. …
We see various insulin pumps described as “waterproof”. But what does it actually mean? Personally I’m interested in how “life-proof” my devices are. That covers multiple aspects including: Water- and dust-proof. Things get dusty in the desert (especially if I fall over or commando-crawl while tracking some wildlife with my cameras). When working on small …