# Open Source Diabetes "Artificial Pancreas"

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**Created:** 2016-05-03 13:22 UTC
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**URL:** https://openhealthhub.org/t/open-source-diabetes-artificial-pancreas/394

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## Post #1 by @adrian.wilkins

As someone likes to muck around with a Raspberry Pi, I was interested to see this : 

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/862064?scr=soc_tw_160429-pm_mscpedt_news_diabetes

While this is clearly not an "approved medical device", is it really any worse than manual BG readings and dosing?

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