Open source Arduino blood glucose meter shield

The most critical part of the PCB will be the glucose test strip connector to my surprise. Only a few companies like Ample Technologies will provide those test strip connectors. I learned that these test strip connectors are protected by patents and IPs. You need to answer a lot of questions if it is for personal hobby or education use or for prototyping phase which eventually goes into mass production.

I am in contact with Ample Technologies now. Let's see, if they will provide some samples of connectors, suitable for the ONE TOUCH ULTRA test strips...

In the mean time I found a Taiwanese company called Switchtech which has a connector suitable for the ONE TOUCH ULTRA test strips. They will provide 50 samples FOC, I only need to pay for the shipment. I attached the datasheet under FILES.

Samples received:

Pin diagram of the ONE TOUCH ULTRA test strip connector:

The two strip detect pins are connected if the test strip is correctly inserted.