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| | | Author: | T1DRyansAunt  | | Posted: | Nov 15, 2021 18:39 | | Subject: | Help me Build: Insulin Pump! Will pay. | | Viewed: | 134 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| Lego fans,
I received your contact information from Lego customer service who thought you
may be able to help!
I am looking for a list of parts I may need so my 8 year old nephew, Ryan, can
build his own lego Diabetes pump. He was diagnosed with Type 1 Juvenile Diabetes
last year. T1D is caused by a rare genetic disorder, and while it is treatable,
it is not curable. When we went to the lego store at downtown Disneyland, he
was excited and said "I want to build a lego insulin pump!" I'd like to give
it to him for Christmas.
I am wondering if anyone in this group or on your team can help me figure out
which parts I need. For reference, his pump is the tandem Basal-IQ Tandem pump,
images can be found here. https://www.tandemdiabetes.com/
I have also attached an image link hereto. The pump is simple- a black rectangle
with a screen and some buttons. Ryan would be able to take this lego pump to
his Juvenile Diabetes Camp (Camp Conrad Chinook) to show the other T1D kids as
well. I'd be happy to share the parts needed/instructions with their families
as well.
I'd be happy to pay for someone to help me figure out how to build this thing.
Please let me know your thoughts.
Thank you sincerely,
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| | | | | Author: | primmspieces | | Posted: | Nov 15, 2021 20:13 | | Subject: | Re: Help me Build: Insulin Pump! Will pay. | | Viewed: | 99 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| *Looks down at pocket* I am very familiar with the Tandem pump! Here's a
VERY quick moc try...
A 6 x 10 plate base is the same footprint as the pump.
Middle layer is 2x2 corner bricks x4, with 1x2 bricks x2 on short side and 1x6
bricks x2 on long side. Fill the middle with 1x8 bricks x4 to make a block. These
would all be black... I used dif. colors for ease of viewing the pieces.
Top layer would be all tiles for a smooth finish. With base, middle, and top
layers combined, the Lego pump is now the same size as the real pump. In the
pic I have 1x6 tiles x6 in the same configuration as the "black background areas"
as the pump screen. The yellow showing in my moc would be the data/graph part
of the pump. This could be filled in with 1x6 tiles x4, and maybe get a custom
sticker to put over this area? It's kind of a small space to do detail.
I also tried playing around with "making" a screen, but I don't have any
white quarter curved tiles (used aqua) or 1x1 black tiles to fill in the background,
so I switched the 1x8 "background" bricks to dark gray for a better visual. I
tried to make the power and insulin remaining bar with 1x2 tiles in lime and
med. blue, then the 1,2,3 buttons with 1x2 light gray (dark gray would probably
be a better match). You could do stickers for the time and 1,2,3 buttons perhaps?
Hope this helps! I need to go load more insulin...
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| | | | | | | Author: | r.godfrey | | Posted: | Nov 16, 2021 18:30 | | Subject: | Re: Help me Build: Insulin Pump! Will pay. | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, primmspieces writes:
| | *Looks down at pocket* I am very familiar with the Tandem pump! Here's a
VERY quick moc try...
A 6 x 10 plate base is the same footprint as the pump.
Middle layer is 2x2 corner bricks x4, with 1x2 bricks x2 on short side and 1x6
bricks x2 on long side. Fill the middle with 1x8 bricks x4 to make a block. These
would all be black... I used dif. colors for ease of viewing the pieces.
Top layer would be all tiles for a smooth finish. With base, middle, and top
layers combined, the Lego pump is now the same size as the real pump. In the
pic I have 1x6 tiles x6 in the same configuration as the "black background areas"
as the pump screen. The yellow showing in my moc would be the data/graph part
of the pump. This could be filled in with 1x6 tiles x4, and maybe get a custom
sticker to put over this area? It's kind of a small space to do detail.
I also tried playing around with "making" a screen, but I don't have any
white quarter curved tiles (used aqua) or 1x1 black tiles to fill in the background,
so I switched the 1x8 "background" bricks to dark gray for a better visual. I
tried to make the power and insulin remaining bar with 1x2 tiles in lime and
med. blue, then the 1,2,3 buttons with 1x2 light gray (dark gray would probably
be a better match). You could do stickers for the time and 1,2,3 buttons perhaps?
Hope this helps! I need to go load more insulin...
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The $1 or Michaels shops sell numbered stickers so getting a sheet of white stickers
would go well on the light bluish grey 1x2 tiles.
Not the perfect match but for the graphic
3068bpb0117
3068bpb1658
87079pb0551
87079pb0712
As an indicator (top left) bit
3069bpb0938
2431pb600
For the time
3069px5
3069bpb0481
Though I would probably fill the whole area with black tiles and print a custom
graphic from a computer. Make the images to the right size in MS Word and use
black shading and the right coloured fonts.
Great idea.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Nov 16, 2021 18:43 | | Subject: | Re: Help me Build: Insulin Pump! Will pay. | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| (Just adding macros.)
In Help, r.godfrey writes:
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The $1 or Michaels shops sell numbered stickers so getting a sheet of white stickers
would go well on the light bluish grey 1x2 tiles.
Not the perfect match but for the graphic
[p=3068bpb0117]
[p=3068bpb1658]
As an indicator (top left) bit
[p=3069bpb0938]
For the time
[p=3069bpb0481]
Though I would probably fill the whole area with black tiles and print a custom
graphic from a computer. Make the images to the right size in MS Word and use
black shading and the right coloured fonts.
Great idea.
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