Comment on Earbud question: Does anyone actually like to silicone tipped earbuds over the solid plastic ones?
altphoto@lemmy.today 8 hours ago
I did a diy cast of my ear canal using diy silicone… Which I fo not recommend, but look for sugru. It’s silicone type I mixed with talcum powder to expose the water trapped in talcum to the silicone over a large volume in a controlled way… Then I scanned the casts and I used a DSLR to take photos of the parts at various angles and used an open source app to get 3D models from the images. Then I used freecad to cut the models with areas to mount the tiny speakers and such. Finally printed them in SLA resin. I made earplugs, IEMS and headphone adapters using the same geometry. They are very comfortable. The plugs are great for swimming.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 6 hours ago
They sell kits to make your own custom-fit silicone plugs. They’re like $10 on Amazon.
Work great. Push the goo into your ear, wait a few minutes and it’s cured enough to take out. Wait another hour or so and it’s fully cured.
altphoto@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
Yup, I learned about it later. Its called radians. There are other companies. I did try the material and works okay. The key design factor is that it won’t stick to your skin or eardrums. Well there are kits that are like that, do you gotta test the material before you go stick it up your ear holes. Even I wasn’t that dumb. I practiced several times before committing LOL. You would not LOL not hearing anything anymore, so again, just go to the audiologist. It defeats the purpose if you hurt your hearing while trying to hear better.