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Diabetes 1 scale product/project easy carbohydrate calculator
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babysitter:
Yeah, the FDA will consider this a medical device. They will definitively wake up if you start selling it, but iirc also claiming that someday you gonna start selling something that does medical-device-things might catch their interest already. If your personal project is somewhat successful and you consider selling it, the FDA provides great guidance documents and standards - much better than in "CE land" :)

Greetings from outside FDA land
matsv201:
I maybe should make a  picture making more obvious what i´m trying to make. Pretty much a scale replacement. Like any other kitchen scales, just specialty made to calculate carbohydrates.

I don´t know much about FDA because i live in Europe. For CE marking it would just be a kitchen scale. The device probably could be used by people on a diet as well. I have ended up on a lot of Atkinson diet forums when i try to google devices like this.

When saying when it would potentially be sold, i was thinking more of a china postorder kit. Its really not about making money as much as filling a demand.

When the glucose sensor and insulin pump does all the other math, its kind of strange that the carbohydrate math still need to be done by hand (sure there are aps, but they really never work well)

While i personalty rather se that adults learn the math... For young children, its often really not a alternative. They might already have it hard in school. And diabetes makes it harder... they don´t need to have it any harder.

The basic idéa is simple a potentiometer from 0-100 and pictures with suggestion how much common food is (like rice, pasta, potatoes, bread and so on). And possible making it transparent and lett people have there own say A5 size inserts in a pocket under the scale.
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