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Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics

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Re: Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

SequoiaHope wrote: post #68
qdot76367 wrote: post #58

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Yup! If it vibrates, we support it. The XBox controller (and other rumble gamepads) are probably the most widely owned vibrators, so hey, why not? I'm still trying to find a bluetooth electric toothbrush with a controls API. Most of them just have timers. :(

Qdot did I ever show you, like 8 years ago after some Arse Elektronica, my thrusting brushless linear motor based sex machine? I designed and built brushless linear motors from scratch as well as the drive electronics. Anyway I never made it in to a business and lately think I will open source it all. I was going to ask for your email but I just discovered metafetish, so I can post something there. I'll do so in a fe…

Screw the sex machine part (heh!), I want to hear about designing your own brushless linear motors!

Re: Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics

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Post by qdot76367 »

dajohnson89 wrote: post #46
qdot76367 wrote: post #40

Hi! Buttplug Project Lead here! AMA!

Do you see a lot of potential in this space? Any insight into the unit sales, usage stats, etc?

It's really difficult to say? There's lots of media articles right now about teledildonics being the future and super popular during COVID, but I'd say the real winner here is video conference still. Teledildonics has a LONG way to go in terms of UI/UX before it'll really catch on, and I would never go as far as claiming it's a replacement for physical intimacy, much as VR isn't a replacement for actually being somewhere. Rather, it's an augmentation of it, and a way to allow us to be or feel things that may not even be possible (for better or worse).

Re: Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics

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Post by DonHopkins »

enahs-sf wrote: post #4

This sounds like some erotic sci-fi come true. "In a world swept by a pandemic leaving billions unstimulated, teledildonics kept us together."

"Get back there! I've got the Power Pasties, and I know how to use 'em!" -Dr. Flexi Jerkoff, Flesh Gordon

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068595/characters/nm0399710

Re: Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics

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Post by qdot76367 »

mst wrote: post #95
qdot76367 wrote: post #83

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There have been a few (tried Trello and ZenHub), and they've all turned into a mess, so I recently hit the reset button again and am just trying a github project now: https://github.com/orgs/buttplugio/projects/1 tl;dr - Right now I'm trying to standardize our logic on Rust (I'm also the ex-device interfaces lead on firefox at Mozilla, so I love some rust :) ), then extend back out to other languages and platforms th…

Any chance of pavlok support? It doesn't exactly vibrate but ... (and if the answer is "patches welcome" I can always make another attempt to convince my rpi to talk to the bloody thing myself)

Yup, I've got a Pavlok 2, and there's multiple libraries on github for supporting it already. Feel free to hmu in the email I'm about to put in my bio if you'd like to talk more about this offline.

I get a TON of requests about estim support, it's just difficult to figure out how ethics/liability works around all of that.

Re: Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics

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Post by qdot76367 »

Thomas_Lord wrote: post #93
qdot76367 wrote: post #40

Hi! Buttplug Project Lead here! AMA!

I have one more line of questions. I have, um, observed that "cam" sex workers use teledildonics as a kind of "proof of life". The idea is that paying customers send signals to a sex toy in use by the performer, whose reaction reassures the customer that he is paying for a live show. It affords a way of (apparently) "doing stuff" to the performer in spite of the virtualized nature of the show. Two part question: 1. A…

1. This is a topic that actually, seriously comes up often on cam model forums, and verification of authenticity is, to me, something that is just completely fucked in terms of even being an idea. Do these same customers get angry when they find out the movie they just paid to see was fiction?

2. Are you familiar with findom? Cause that's like, just straight up what findom is. Literally unbalanced trade of capital as fetish.

Re: Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics

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Post by qdot76367 »

Yaa101 wrote: post #81
qdot76367 wrote: post #42

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Thanks! It's been a lot of hard work but it's a super fun project, really glad people enjoy it. :D

Hi, I think you do a service to the world, I am a seller of toys, as shop owner, but was/am reluctant to sell teledildonics just because of security problems, I will keep a close look on your project to decide if and when I will start selling them and point my customers to your project. Any chance of using golang in the future?

Hopefully once the FFI bindings happen in Rust, yeah! We had someone produce a Go library right when the project started 3 years ago, but it's SUPER dated now and wasn't really supported much.

https://github.com/funjack/golibbuttplug

Re: Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics

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Post by qdot76367 »

enahs-sf wrote: post #4

This sounds like some erotic sci-fi come true. "In a world swept by a pandemic leaving billions unstimulated, teledildonics kept us together."

For the 4 months before COVID-19 shelter in place, I was working on a paper about remote intimacy and proxemics, as a lot of the work I'm doing on Buttplug has really interesting implications in digital proxemics.

Shelter in place started a week after I turned the paper in for publication. Now I feel like I was just staring at the sun for months, and am trying to figure out how to deal with what I thought were projections being realities.

It's pretty fucked up.

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