I found much the same thing with mine. I had mine implanted because a friend owned a piercing shop and offered to do it for free.
Since then I haven't had much practical use for it except for the odd POC project.
The friend that did mine though uses his with a pass code for the front lock on his apartment. I've also considered something for my laptop to automatically unlock it when my wrist is in range.
Yeah the unlocking thing I got to work, I used it for a while to log onto my machine at work. Wasn't as much of an improvement as I thought it would be. The book I mentioned has a project on how to build an rfid reader into a keyboard, maybe it works better, not convinced though.
Where do you have yours? Is it more in the webbing between your index finger and thumb, or further up your hand? Mine is between the index and thumb but I did some manual labor a couple of weeks ago and I started to feel it. Does yours ever bother you?
I have seen that book before and was either going to grab it or did and it's sitting in my pile of unread books back in Canada.
I have mine in the back of my wrist about an inch up my arm from where my wrist bends back. It is out of the way of everything. I rarely remember it is there until I go to scratch my wrist.
Of course the downside is that I have to twist my wrist around in a slightly awkward fashion to get it to register.
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I found much the same thing with mine. I had mine implanted because a friend owned a piercing shop and offered to do it for free.
Since then I haven't had much practical use for it except for the odd POC project.
The friend that did mine though uses his with a pass code for the front lock on his apartment. I've also considered something for my laptop to automatically unlock it when my wrist is in range.
Yeah the unlocking thing I got to work, I used it for a while to log onto my machine at work. Wasn't as much of an improvement as I thought it would be. The book I mentioned has a project on how to build an rfid reader into a keyboard, maybe it works better, not convinced though.
Where do you have yours? Is it more in the webbing between your index finger and thumb, or further up your hand? Mine is between the index and thumb but I did some manual labor a couple of weeks ago and I started to feel it. Does yours ever bother you?
I have seen that book before and was either going to grab it or did and it's sitting in my pile of unread books back in Canada.
I have mine in the back of my wrist about an inch up my arm from where my wrist bends back. It is out of the way of everything. I rarely remember it is there until I go to scratch my wrist.
Of course the downside is that I have to twist my wrist around in a slightly awkward fashion to get it to register.