FWIW, Stan once told me that you can use the implant for multiple purposes. For example, if your employer uses RFID cards for building entry, you could have your implant replace both that card and your DMs card/fob.
If you’d like to have a discussion with someone who actually has one implanted, @grahamb is a satisfied implant customer.
Depends on what your work uses. My previous job had a system that wasn’t compatible with the ATA5577 so I would’ve needed a different one for work.
where do I buy one at?
I believe that dangerousthings.com has been the supplier most oft recommended. See search results:
https://talk.dallasmakerspace.org/search?q=dangerousthings
Who managed our discount arrangement with Dangerous Things?
We used to get discounts and sell them for $25
Dan Quevedo would arrange days to come do implants. He setup a sterile table space etc; he’s a professional body piercer that is also a member. After factoring in the discount, members could get implanted for the cost of just buying the kit otherwise.
There are a few professionals in the area that are listed on the dangerous things website
@Kriskat30 also has been willing to do it (by no means professional, but the job got done and she did one of mine… Rumor is she just likes sticking people with the needles)
A couple of comments regarding RFID chips:
And
(I had mine done by a surgeon - I was already in and out of office for post surgery follow ups and he was excited about it. Good experience, would recommend.)
Where did you buy it at and how much did you pay for the process I’m trying to way my options
All of the ones dms has had came from dangerous things.
Our doors use 125khz chips.
Some of the 125kHz tags are writable and some aren’t. It isn’t necessary to get a writable one unless you want to use both your fob and your implant simultaneously.
125kHz is a good identifier for what’s compatible with our readers. A better identifier is EM4100/EM4200 or maybe Wiegand.
The best way to be sure it’s compatible before implanting is to bring it to the space and try to use it at a reader. If it beeps it works.
My surgeon didn’t charge me but we were pretty tight by that time after a long string of medical surgeries. 
I will send you the info for the surgeon friend via PM, I don’t know exactly what she would charge but you can call her office and leave a message to find out. I believe she has an office not terribly far from DMS. Can also do the flex NFCs if anyone is looking at those.
So to be clear, the dangerous things implant only has two types of chips for simple transponders, a low frequency and a high frequency
The low frequency is a T5577 RFID emulator and can be programmed to most LF systems. We have writers that can program the chip to match your fob
What’s the pain like getting one of these? Seems a pretty sensitive area.
No joke I’ve had worse bowel movements but ymmv.
The hypodermic needle minimizes the pain. It’s mostly just weird watching it happen depending on how closely you choose to watch.
I have 134.2Khz sterile glass tags here if anyone needs one for pets or Alzheimer family members you can add them to the pet registry. It runs in my family and it can be terrifying when they dont know where they even live
I use my implant at both DMS and the Ft Collins Creator Hub makerspace in Colorado.
Note: reprogramming my RFID chip using the DMS writer at the time (March 2018) did NOT work. We ended up using the default ID instead of trying to map it to my existing card.
Note 2: You can buy the chip and verify that it works with our readers (and even register it) BEFORE you take it out of the package and implant it. This may be easier and would certainly prevent an instance of installing (in a much more permanent sense of the word) an incompatible chip.
Wow. Just Wow
To this whole thread.
I feel like I’ve fallen into Logan’s Run
Somehow :)))
I’m enjoying my Wow.
No one wants to know who I am
or find me that bad.
Next Life.
