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Engineering a reusable insulin patch pump

We’ve been working on a reusable insulin patch pump for the past year, and I wanted to share some of the engineering lessons learned so far. Insulin micro-dosing is mechanically non-trivial: basal delivery can be fractions of a unit per hour, boluses involve larger step changes, and everything has to stay within ISO tolerances while attached to a moving human body for several days.Some...

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