Tragus piercing headphone
Hi. This is my first post here, so I'm not sure if this is in the right category. I was wondering if you think it's possible to use a tragus piercing with a magnet attached to the jewelry as a headphone with a coil and amplifier, kind of like what Rich Lee did, but without implanting a magnet in your ear. I thought of either a CBR that has a ball made of a small neodymium magnet, or a stud that has a small neodymium magnet attached to the back of it. Do you think something like that is possible?
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If you use a CBR you have a lot of mass being vibrated by a small magnet. Plus, you have to figure out how to capture a magnet.
I made a magnetic piercing but I've had no luck so I hope you can improve on my method.
My method was to purchase a short post, 12ga stainless steel in my case, and two stainless steel 5mm beads. Plastic would probably have been a better choice for all parts. I cut a bead in half and glued a 5mm diameter cylindrical magnet to the flat face with super glue.
No matter how close I held the coil from "Invisible Headphones" I couldn't get sound from them.
BUT, what if we mounted a magnet with flexible material, like ordinary silicone, and attached the silicone to a piercing stud? Imagine a magnet bouncing around on a layer of squishy silicone. The magnet vibrations should produce sound waves in the air.
Since nothing is being implanted we can even use a dirty word...Sugru. Or hardware store silicone for that matter. For a proof-of-concept it wouldn't be expensive or require tools more complicated than a tongue depressor and a toothpick.
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Some old headphones with small drivers and the terminals tied together should do the trick, yes? Easy enough to test if that's true.
For a simple test rig, you could glue a small Nb magnet to a disk of paper and suspend that in a ring. This would be the core of the system.