Welcome to Diabettech – now you’ve found this page, you’re on the path to finding out more about various aspects of Diabetes technology, with a information about CGM systems, DIY Closed Loops, forthcoming insulins and a variety of other aspects. From here you can also find guides and information pertaining to user experiences on a range of topics.
Firstly though, if you’re looking for recent posts…
Latest Posts
If you’re looking for the blog posts, follow this link, but in the meantime, the most recent posts can be found below:
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Almost AGI? The latest AI models still haven’t shown they can beat humans at carb counting…
This is a follow-up to I asked AI to count my carbs 27,000 times. It couldn’t give me the same answer twice. The full preprint is on Zenodo at doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22879139. When OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra this month, its president Greg Brockman said it’s not unreasonable to feel we’re now in the AGI era, and then…
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Zucara’s ZT-01: what could taking the brake off glucagon do?
ZT-01 aims to restore glucagon counterregulation during hypoglycaemia. But type 1 diabetes already produces glucagon at the wrong time — and Zucara’s own human data show SSTR2 blockade raises glucagon, glucose and insulin requirements during euglycaemia. What will the trials tell us about its longer term effects?
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More Bolus, Less Basal: What Happens When oref Loops Run More Frequently
When you give an oref based hybrid closed loop minute by minute data, what happens to it’s insulin delivery choices? This is where we find out.
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Your CGM Knows You Ate. It Can’t Tell What You Ate.
How much of a meal signal is there in glucose data, and what can you do with it? This article describes a deep dive into a large dataset and tells us what it finds.
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Beyond Carb Counting: Boost’s Evolution — and the Limits of “Fully Closed Loop”
An update on Boost, how it helps remove carb counting, and the techniques and mechanisms we’ve used to try and get there.
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Bolt AI into your loop and you might just have become a medical device manufacturer
Embedded AI is starting to appear in open source AID systems, offered as copy and paste, bring your own key, or a service the project runs. A year of measuring these models says the clinical risk is much the same in all three. The regulatory position is not, and the intuition about which is safest…
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DIY Closed Looping – Guides
The following pages provide a variety of guides for understanding and getting going with DIY Closed Loops
- A guide to DIY Closed Loops
- What is a DIY Closed Loop?
- Comparing OpenAPS and Loop
- AndroidAPS and OpenAPS side-by-side
- The Guide to DIY Closed Looping for Healthcare Professionals
User Resources
We’ve undertaken a number of surveys and studies with users of CGMs and DIY Closed Loops. Those studies can be found in this section:
The Marketplace
The marketplace is a fee free location to exchange looping supplies. That includes pumps and CGM components. Feel free to post what you are willing to pass on, or what you’re looking for.