This #MakerMonday we learn about a Raspberry Pi-based medical pump made by a diabetic teen who wanted to understand how insulin doses keep him alive. You can find more projects like this in the latest issue of Raspberry Pi Official Magazine.

Teenager Rune Bobbaers was diagnosed with the auto-immune illness type 1 diabetes before he was old enough to start school. Curiosity about how insulin is used to manage his glucose levels and keep his body in check led Rune to investigate how to create his own dosage pump so he could understand how it operates. He was “immediately hooked” as soon as he began using Raspberry Pi 400. “That such a small, affordable computer could do so much really inspired me.” He worked on what would become his IINTS insulin pump project during CoderDojo sessions learning MicroPython and using Raspberry Pi Pico W. The now 16-year-old Rune submitted it as a Coolest Project, where it immediately caught the eye of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s judges.

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