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 I was stranded in a car in a storm. The storm took out all the cell towers. With nothing to do, I decided to do some biohacking, chill out, use some Near Infrared Light, and do some vagal stimulation to remove the stress of the freaking wind that was shaking my car and throwing over reusable bathrooms around me.

I turned the device on, but it needed to log in and go to the internet. Which was, of course, not working because of the storm.

Why does an electric nerve stimulator need an account and access to the Internet? I sighed. A few moments later, I wanted to learn about BLE hacking and reverse engineering. The code was written mostly by ChatGPT anyway, but I did some nice reverse engineering of the protocol. The result is this micro app. Have fun.

Desktop: https://github.com/jooray/pulse-libre-desktop
Mobile: https://github.com/jooray/PulseLibre

Screenshots:

https://image.nostr.build/bd54cde0e95017b684906d6d60bb25a974c1a0189441f6a7b09cf7e57e5eb376.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/5c81b4e31a3e5b38d39fa2e6cf83fd015e167a68095738289e22e65e7414b220.png

I even did a not so perfect icon:
https://image.nostr.build/89c47078dd5bb5cc0701a5eaa09f3397c3eaff45330985bd73be258adbe2ab7f.png

I love coding.