 I'm gonna basically go through and and and just introduce myself here who's um Govang and introduce this whole crew. So uh from there. I'll let you guys write but um just some background in case you don't know Sorry guys um Maxwell's working in mathematics and high energy physics until he decided his background in science It was probably the right thing to help tackle problems of world health and other social issues Uh perpetually disruptive This flagship project makes it possible for people to manufacture their own medications at home Open source and made from off-the-shelf parts the apothecary micro lab Puts many medications within the reach of those who would otherwise not have them Project would garnered his group the most press was the epi pencil Uh an open source version of the epi band which cost only 30 dollars produced and three dollars worth of fill I have used this my son requires it and with one source of provider for epi pens and uh The cost that it takes to uh to buy that uh, thank you for that personally Thank you so much. Thank you all so much for being here this is a really really really happy moment for me because In my health work Which is different than this Several things happen I come up and I talk about things that I didn't have much of a hand in except for organizing I'm bragging about great work that other people did and I can't even give them credit because we work in the gray area that's in the darker side of heather as I call it and so they shouldn't be named and I've been so welcomed by the biohacking community and I've never felt like I really deserved the label But today I do so um, I'm gonna bring up my guys here um The first thing here is that this was a collaborative effort and I want to bring up nick titus and um as well as zack shannon Who've been working at the core of this? um fourth east vinegar is of course my organization solitary is uh Zach's Myonic is nicks and of course we could not have done this without casics who I think you all know who's a champ and made this all possible um So we also would like to do a special thanks to a couple of people specifically left anonym and matias strobe Who helped us a great deal as well as nebula Who I think is here? bunny who's not an actually ants Colt and control creep and My favorite childhood author So We've got a problem We were so excited. I was so excited when the internet was built. It was going to fix everything We were going to be connected. It was going to be free. It was going to be impossible to censor It was going to be impossible to surveil and all of that is not the case and we're paying for it and it doesn't work There's a backbone. We're reliant on infrastructure Everything you do online is watched all the time by any number of places and it can be shut down at a moment's notice Depending on where you are. This is a disaster We dream of it looking like this Every device could just be part of our network. Why does it have to have a backbone? It could be better. We want it to be better. We dream of it being better and The technology exists for it to be better now. This is not our technology and this is why we thank matias because he Built the pirate box platform. This is an open network That is not connected to anything local area network And there's a phone app that you can get you can run it on your laptop and you can build it into Uh routers and all of a sudden you have an anonymized network where you can chat There are forms you can trade upload download files. You can stream and they're super easy to build and um This is sort of what it looks like when you when you pull it up and here's one that I built So this is a battery powered router You can see it's fairly small depending on your definition of small, which is a critical definition And I brought this to grind fest and this is the inside And I think nick here is going to talk a little bit about what happened. We were at grind fest and we're going to just sort of go through it So it was about three months ago back in may We were out in the desert in california into hatchipi at grind fest grind fest is a grinder biohacking meetup And michael had this Little board booted up so that we could do local file sharing it had a chat room all this sort of thing and left Who was in attendance saw that and said hey, do you think you could implant that in me? And being the environment it was we figured Maybe why not why not give it a shot? And so we opened up that little white box and we found this board inside And we depopulated all of the unnecessary parts. So we took off ports that we didn't need we took off A few larger components Got those all scraped down stripped down We took out the battery because If you know anything about implantables that is one of the big points of contention right now is putting a battery inside of somebody So we wanted to avoid that we added in 64 gigabytes of usb storage soldered on to the board And then from there we solved the Powering problem using a chi charging coil. So We came up with this idea that theoretically it could be able to be powered Through the skin just by a wireless battery We had to scrape off and grind off some of these more stubborn Some of the more stubborn ports on there. It was about a two-day process And we were just using all of the parts that we happened to have there In the lab. So then we get it all finished We got it coated in a biocompatible resin that jeff did here and From there the implant the implantation started. So the rest is gory Very warning. Yes. So In a clean room in a clean facility We had the first prototype Implanted into left's arm. This is the roughest of these photos So this was all done by somebody who's trained But there's the device it's pretty metal pretty cyberpunk And that is it in After all sutured up I think the next photo shows it off a little bit better once all the blood's out of there There is the device under somebody's skin. This is not a bone sticking out That is a drainage tube that allows fluid to come out. But once it was in left's arm Sorry So this one I had to put in because this is the best compliment any of us have ever gotten And I just want to say thank you So this was This was a comment given by technicolor. Um, they said this right at the end of uh, of all of grindfest And this is that implant today Or a few weeks ago after it's healed. Um, so a pretty gnarly scar there But it's under the skin and everything ended up working on there. So Left is the first person to have this First device implanted it has 64 gigs of local storage And by holding um, a wireless battery up to it They can power it on and have that local network just under there under their skin So that was all built in two or three days with just the parts that we had on hand And then after all that ordeal we decided to take another step So Zach and I worked, um, a lot trying to get these bits and pieces to come together to try and build a new version that was smaller with more data density and The key thing trying to make it so that they would mesh between each other because The thing that makes the magic possible All of the ideas of building a new internet is if they all talk to each other So we needed to make that happen and um, this is a picture of us at our best Clearly visually, um when we were on a video call with matias who was such a champ He came off a vacation with his family and set up a video call with us in the middle of the night Between singapore wherever you live And and germany somewhere in the u.s. So yeah So you want to say a little bit about the technical side of this and what we ran up against So, yeah, we were we were trying to figure out the networking and a lot of the documentation was very vague or Translated from non-english, um But uh, yeah, matias was a great help He was able to you know, actually sketch out diagrams and walk us through all the steps of what is actually happening and You know with the topology of everything. So that that really Helped us, uh Know what we were supposed to be doing as opposed to what we were supposed to end up with um, but so We we were trying to get it to be smaller than version one because that was a little bigger than some people would want To get in their skin This is really tiny. It's 40 by 40 millimeters. Yeah, this is 40 millimeter square So this is what we started working on. Uh, it does have uh, you know on board radios A little bit of onboard storage, of course with expandable we were working on this uh for a while and um You know, we we were really hoping that we would be able to get this project done before def cons We could actually show it off and you know show all you guys this stuff So it doesn't have a built-in antenna And so I was looking into some options including using our actual skin as an antenna, which we just spoiler alert We ultimately did not use So this was a chip antenna That we looked at it's really tiny. It's really powerful and I They have this Technical drawings and I figured out a way that it would lie over the corner and I was so excited And then that didn't work point point being we put a lot of work into that board before We decided that we should just go with a raspberry pi And from there it took about a week to complete and it was a lot simpler. It's it's slightly larger. Um But uh, like 20 percent that it's we were kind of doing a lot more Overthinking than than we should have been doing over engineering projects will regret it So so v2 is based on the the raspberry pi zero It this is this is the first time we got it booted and connected to it Michael was pretty uh pretty hyped to see the screen. Yeah, this this is you know, this is makes my old school hacker heart Just glow when you see ascii text boot up from the thing that you've been working so hard to build Um, and this is our splash page This looks very much like the pyrebox page, but um, it has a little extra verbiage and a different logo But yeah, the functionality is the same. Um Now this sd card came out four days ago So the units we built only have a half terabyte only And yet i'm not crying yet Um, so here's what it looks like Um coated and powered up um So the additional parts of the hardware to look at here Um, I mean this is next one's a little closer. There we go. So this is a this is a different unit That's also been coated. That's also booted up. You can see that Um, this one this one's just a tester unit that has a 16 gig sd card Um on the other side, you'll see a couple of things There's a second wi-fi card. That's the thing that's glowing blue And there that's so that we can make the meshing happen. We had Quite a battle trying to figure out ways to get These units to mesh without an external Extra wi-fi. So, you know, we we got a successful network interface up So two units together powered together will be able to communicate but We spent so much time trying to get that interface up that we actually at the moment Don't have any software running on the network. So we'll be asking you all about that later Um, yeah, do you want to say something else about that? So the the other thing to look at here is that you'll see the sort of Tope chunk on the corner there That's uh, that's a capacitor. That's a 2200 micro farad tantalum capacitor Now that's necessary because chi charging Is a protocol that's developed by the wireless charging consortium not the wireless continuous power consortium, which is An entity which doesn't exist. So when you've got something that's designed to charge It's going to give power but dropping it intermittently is not a big deal as long as you can reconnect So we need something that was going to buffer That power drop in between times. So it wasn't just constantly knocking us offline Um, I first did this with a super cap and I was like, well, this is great But you don't put electrolytics under your skin because they like Explode and other things that are like not great to have inside your body Um, so we found this tantalum capacitor. Um, thanks to nebula wherever he is. Thank you, bro Um, and uh, and it worked like a charm The other thing that you can see is that so the board's been depopulated all the Ports are gone You'll see the four purple jumper wires going from the usb Interface the usb key And then you'll see a little red wire and then a little gray wire Coming off the power usb This runs to the capacitor in parallel and then over to the chi coil on the back um So this is again, you can connect to this using whatever device So this is what the splash page looks like on a phone and then once these were Built finally, um, we mailed them to cassox and he coded them and then we decided to put them in Everybody ready This is cassox who is made of steel And just grabbed the bite stick and said i'll do the first one And This was amazing to witness. You can't see it in this picture, but i'm standing there as first assist absolutely awestruck like And this is how you get under the surface of the skin to make a pocket so that you can get the thing in there And then when you get the thing in there Uh You kind of got to shove it a little bit So i love it in there And this is my favorite picture in the entire show. What's happening here is zack has just Connected so you see how casso's hand has his battery to his leg He had just finished suturing himself up and we're spinning the thing up in real time Nick has just uploaded video of the procedure to his leg which is now being streamed off of my laptop here And this is The most amazing thing it was less than an hour that it took for him to do this by himself I mean i was there, but i brought him stuff. It wasn't like i was super useful and then After it was ready. It was I'm next So that's my leg that he's building that same pocket in and i am not made of steel um So it was a little rougher for me, but here you can see the unit going in and in and in and here you can see my little like moment of Hey, hey zack, can you can you remind me why we're doing this? I'm a little confused It's like a renaissance baby. Yeah, because the next thing i did was faint This is him. He's passed out here and i was checking his pulse And i was only out for a few seconds I remember coming to hearing what he's got a pulse when he's fine Just hold his shoulder so he doesn't fall out of the chair and i was like Whose shoulder do i have to hold And then i promptly threw up But happily ever after Everything worked out we had it going and as you can see i look a little better than in the previous photos now Here's the thing that always comes up When you've got an implant People ask this question that can either be very interesting or very divisive, which is What does your implant do that a wearable couldn't? And it's a really valid question It's important because if we're actually going to the trouble of cutting ourselves open and sticking things in We should have a reason Even if that reason is this is my form of self-expression and I want to be a cyborg and that's important and like, you know, I mean that's part of it There are arguments that can be made for People who are maybe working in political activism people are who are maybe working with sensitive data This is a way that you can discreetly transfer that sort of data Bring that out into the world cross maybe enemy lines and Not have it detected after left first got her implant and then traveled Back to the uk they Made it through security without any sort of hiccups. There was no There's nothing through going through the scanners that caused any problems. So there's an argument to be made there It's a little bit flimsy. The real reason is self-expression and being a cyborg and that sort of thing However, there are a number of things that this does from a technical standpoint that haven't been done before First off It has more storage Than anything that's ever been implanted before by a large margin making both michael and jeff The highest digital capacity humans on the earth Um Additionally With the exception of version one This is the first thing to take wireless power as its only power source And this seems very promising because as any grinder will tell you designing an implant your biggest problem is Where does the power come from and being able to have a battery like being able to have no battery So that there's no battery to run out or fail or Blow is is a huge jump this we believe could be the first step towards a sort of network of implants That could all be powered just using a centralized battery And wires going to each implant with just a charging coil instead of having to worry about those batteries under the skin and additionally the key key key thing is that they talk to each other And ultimately this is the thing that we're dreaming of because If we all are just nodes if you imagine where you live and you imagine every computer every router and every phone being a node on a mesh network then At least your local infrastructure can go away. I mean how many times This is great just an hour ago. We were upstairs and we're like Well, I I need to send you that big image. Oh my god I can't connect to the wi-fi because I don't actually have a room number. Wait, how do we and then suddenly we were like Wait, we just solved this problem spin up the peg leg And that's how we traded every picture you just saw in this entire thing and we did it an hour ago So We're looking at what to do next Jack you want to jump in so yeah, so here here's some of our ideas going forward first of all Actually utilize the the meshing network that we worked so hard to To integrate whether that be just you know file sync between nodes or actual like real-time communication between users like instant messaging v.o.i.p even And that's just on the current hardware so going forth for future hardware is You know try to eliminate additional radios because theoretically We don't actually need that second wi-fi radio to do what we're trying to do Oh, however, I should just mention the other thing is that our the our peg leg units will mesh with Pirate boxes that are mesh enabled as well So if you have one of those we can chat Yeah, wink up And then going forward. Yeah, we're you know We've been discussing ideas the past few days with a few people that we we've ran into about How small can we get this and how? dope can we get this to be There's a lot of ideas and we think that the this kind of platform has a lot of potential of enabling like persistent storage within the body that you can't lose or Forget to grab or get stolen and then of course like communication If you could have a decentralized communication platform that exists within you as opposed to relying on An internet connection then that would be that would be good one in What important thing about this v2? It's about an eighth of the size of the first one It's about half as thick a quarter of the footprint much much smaller But at the same time it's still a multi-purpose computer board. It has gpi on it. It has all these things that are still superfluous and unnecessary so with v3 There's theoretically you could get this down much much smaller for that we're thinking Postage stamp size and something much thinner that could slide under the skin with a less gnarly procedure. They're they're getting easier and easier And we hope that that trend will continue and additionally the reason that I think William Gibson at the beginning Is that if you remember the idea of an encrypted data courier It's real now because what can happen is I can spin up my network in my leg And you can put an encrypted file on it because it's an open network And then if we make a deal and you give me a couple of bitcoins I can fly to Oh, say mainland china or hong kong and the person that needs your data Can get it because I just walk in and I spin up my network and because it's encrypted with your system I don't have access to it And if we all remember our favorite little short story that William Gibson wrote For omni magazine in 1981 And now it's real Oh Yeah, um, so we're raising dolphins currently. Um, we're trying to train them without Giving them heroin. We're trying to do more positive reinforcement because we believe in animal rights Uh, we give them lots of hugs and cuddles and fish and we don't enclose them We try and lure them in from the wild to work with us voluntarily because you know consent is important So um We're gonna pull the video um out of my Uh computer for just a second. So bear with us for the the blue screen So, uh, while this presentation has been going on and while we're in the back of the room there Don't know what that is. Oh, that's Bear with us somebody's desktop background We're doing the ab check now, but when I was back in the room earlier, we filmed We filmed the introduction to this and then we transferred that to a peg leg and um, then download I transferred it uploaded it from my phone and then we downloaded it on this laptop. Um, so now we can watch that This was just carried over that system. Um Yeah Here's the actual unit still warm in my hand from the stream And um, we'll have a couple of these and you can come take a look at them Um, so this is the big deal Pirate box is about to be shut down Matias said he's not going to do any more work because he doesn't have any help and he doesn't have any time now I know there are developers in this room. I know that everyone in this room knows a developer or three or 10 or 500 Please Please Go help this man build this platform. It is so important. It is so important It's the reason that I I let a dear friend stab me and And put electronics under my skin. This is important. So we have these two qr codes that oh, oh, we need a Sorry, I thought I had my screen out, but I didn't hear so I have these two qr codes Which should come up in a moment. Um The one on the left Is the one for connecting to the pirate box development page You can go there and you can ask matias and say, how can I help? Here's if you you know if you have any skills that are pertinent Help this man because he's doing it solo and he's gonna stop if he doesn't get any help Go help him. He's on twitter too. Okay. Go find him. He's awesome Um, if you want to see our little page that has like a modicum of documentation It's on the it's the other qr code And that has some more information about the project It has some people that we think and it also has that documentation Remember we built this using all off the shelf parts. It's something that anybody can build That's a big purpose of this whole thing and that's the thing if you don't want to put this under your skin It becomes significantly easier. You literally can flash an sd card stick it in a raspberry pi Zero w attach a second wi-fi card and it will spin up. I mean it's a 15 minute build. It's incredible um, so the Yeah Let's go make it better. Thank you all so much And when I recover emotionally here, we'll take a few questions. I'll let nick start go Yes So in the testing that we've done The coding that it has helps helps to kind of disperse that heat It's not just the one chip that's in contact with your body. Um, that sort of helps to um Diffuse it diffuse the heat and so far we haven't had any issues and we stress tested that A lot before deciding to put it in because of course you don't want something burning a hole in your leg Or in my leg. Yeah So I think that is mainly governed right now by um the sd card. So Writing that many many times reading that many many times. Um, that's can Have wear on it. Um, and so what we've done is um What we've done is set it up so that it's doing that a minimum amount of times I believe it's every five minutes that it rewrites in a single batch That way you have minimal wear. Um, but at the same time It's not that complex to get them back out of your body and replace that sort of thing So so we've got about five minutes. We can take maybe one or two more Interfere like if it were running when you went through a metal detector If you only went through a metal detector, it should be fine If you went through a backscatter machine I assume that you're going to have some pretty bad interference problems And you probably won't be able to hold a connection But it you your power will probably not disconnect so you could have it running continuously And then once that thing is done scanning then anything that's linked to it could probably reconnect But again, that's one of the things is the power is all passive So only if you put a battery up to it is it running. So yeah, if it's off and I'm just walking around then No big deal. Yeah. Uh, I think there was one more over here. Yes, miss. Yeah the green hair Sorry, so yeah, that'd be fun capture the flag competition for the peg legs Um, let's talk maybe we can set that up I think we have maybe wanted to any any other questions. Are we all done? Do we have one more over here? Yeah. Yeah Okay, okay. Thank you all so much. We are so happy about what we've done and we're gonna celebrate I think we're gonna go have drinks and you're all invited. So thank you all so much for coming