• Hardware Received

    Schwimmflugel2 days ago 0 comments

    Hardware Has Arrived

    I received the boards and reflowed all of the components in place. Next step is to flash the device and see if there's any sound 🤞

    Instructions and details to follow once I have some success.

    Functional Overview 

    I thought it would be worthwhile to give a high level blurb about the intended speaker function. Basically I have two, double-sided FPC coils wired in parallel with opposite polarity. The coils are soldered apart from each other on opposite sides of the main PCB and cover the round cavity. The thought is that the opposite polarity with the sound signal will cause the two coils to either repel or attract each other as would occur with a traditional speaker with a coil and permanent magnet. I haven't been able to find similar designs online and maybe they exist or maybe there's a fundamental issue that will result in these not working, but even garbage audio would be a fantastic result for this concept! 

    More updates to come!