Nice, I was just going to post that plus “Now it’s a regular retail product!”
No more waiting for crowd funding, and it’s much cheaper than it was.
Amal is bound to see this thread, he has also been playing with some more encapsulation of magnets, They wont be as small as the TiTAN but I imagine they will be a cheaper option.
In all reality though, If you want the best option ( In my opinion ), I would suggest you go down the TiTAN path, yeah It will cost more, but you get what you pay for, you don’t want to cut your face open to put in potential substandard magnets and non-proven coatings that you may then need to extract…
We tried titanium nitride coatings on gold and nickel and even phosphated neodymium, but at the end of the day we just couldn’t solve a few inherent problems with the nitride, and an overwhelming percentage of magnets would fail after around a year or so. We revised our accelerated testing methods and found that essentially out of 1800 or so magnets that we produced, nearly all of them failed within a week.
I’m basically taking some nickel coated magnets that someone sent me and coating them with our polymer. The major down side is the tedious nature of dealing with the magnets and the exceptionally large margin of material required around the circumference. More info coming soon-ish.
Thanks for the response @amal.
Your dedicated dt-club-members have convinced me that your TiTAN magnets are probably the best way to go. Once I save up a bit more I’ll start by getting a pair installed as a preliminary and, if I notice some promising results, build up from there.
Have you heard of anything like what I am proposing? I doubt this is an original thought but i haven’t heard of any distributed sensing for increasing spacial resolution. Do you think this is plausible or am I barking up the wrong tree?
cheers,
Nick
If you’re willing to start small, why not install one in each ear (tragus), this could work double duty as an implanted speaker. Satur9 has been working on this. Besides, ears are fairly sensitive and might make a good location for your sensing intent.
Thanks @ODaily. Yes, tragus has been one of my considerations and I certainly appreciate the audio-tactile aspect of this location (interesting read). My primary aim is to gain greater directional/depth sensing and so distance between neighbouring magnets will be a big consideration, since smaller magnetic fields would require closer spaced magnets to detect a differential due to the inverse square law. At this point I’m thinking spider-bites (lower canines) to start off with, but of course everything is still TBD
Once I get them installed I’ll post a report.
Man I’m all for doing cool stuff, but I feel like a few months or years your going to regret doing it bro, but do what makes you happy. I just don’t think you should do it, maybe just put a bunch of magnets in your hands.
possibly… however, the only regrets really would be the smalls scars. Other than that, it should be possible to remove these easily, if they decide to.
The only one I would advise against is the tip of the nose. There is really no spare room in there or fatty tissue either. In addition, I would move the ones in the chin further apart, or collapse them to a single device in the center. Being so close to each other there really would be no point in terms of the indended application.
