Building an artificial Pancreas with Elixir and Nerves (Interview)

We talked with Tim Mecklem about building an artificial Pancreas with Elixir and Nerves to help those with Type 1 Diabetes who want to “loop” — a process which involves monitoring glucose levels, predicting where a person’s glucose levels are heading, then delivering insulin based on that prediction. Tim is a Developer at Gaslight in Cincinnati where he builds software solutions with Ruby and Elixir, and he’s a member of the Nerves Core team.

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Featuring:

• Tim Mecklem – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Building an Artificial Pancreas with Elixir and Nerves at ElixirConf 2017
• Listen to why Karen Sandler can’t hack her heart
• Gaslight - Ruby on Rails, iOS, and JavaScript Consultants out of Cincinnati, OH
• OpenAPS.org - #WeAreNotWaiting to reduce the burden of Type 1 diabetes
• OpenAPS Reference Design
• OpenAPS on GitHub
• The open reference implementation of the OpenAPS reference design
• The Nerves Project
• Nightscout - #WeAreNotWaiting
• Tim’s Elixir Library

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!