Silent DomeThe project · Progress
From sensor
to dome.
Silent Dome is an engineering-student project being built brick by brick. Here is where we stand — from the sound-acquisition hardware to the product itself.
Our roadmap
Where we stand.
We started with sound acquisition — now nearly complete — and we are working our way up the whole chain to the final dome.
Sound acquisition
It all starts with listening. The subsystem that captures ambient noise — the microphone array and the capture chain — is now nearly finalised. This is where we began the project.
Digital sensors — v5
We are on the fifth revision of our sensors. The latest moves our high-resolution (high-SNR) microphones from analog to digital: a real gain in robustness against the electromagnetic interference from the radio side, where analog was far more delicate. The v5 PCB is arriving soon, with its components to solder and test.
AI brain — NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super
Real-time computation runs on an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super, already programmed. It computes — in a fraction of a millisecond — the anti-noise needed to cancel sound exactly where the ears are.
Gateways & small radio PCB
The gateways handle the radio link between the system's nodes. The small radio PCB has successfully received its first round of components — a key step in validating the wireless chain.
Central hub
The system's motherboard — the hub — is designed and manufactured (shown here unpopulated). We are waiting on the last components to solder and assemble it: it will orchestrate sensing, compute and playback.
Fabrication & prototyping
We have just acquired a Bambu Lab 3D printer. It lets us build the prototype structures and enclosures ourselves — and, above all, iterate far faster on the dome's mechanical design.
Close-up
The newest components.
Microphone — mini breakout
This mini microphone breakout board will be soldered directly onto the new version of the wireless digital sensor.
Environmental sensor
Temperature, humidity and atmospheric pressure — to adapt the processing to the room's real-world conditions.
The goal
The product: a dome of silence.
All of these building blocks converge toward a single promise: an active bubble of silence above the bed, with nothing to wear. Acoustic sensors, high-performance microphones and embedded NVIDIA compute, built into the headboard. We document every step — follow us for the behind-the-scenes and the technical details.