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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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Hey nice project. You may want to consider changing domains though "No .IO domain may be used, directly or indirectly, for any purpose that is sexual or pornographic" https://www.nic.io/rules.htm

.io is just the tld for the British Indian Ocean Territory. TIL.

All older two letter domains are all country codes. ccTLD is the term vs gTLD for the original com/net/org/edu but also now refers to all the custom tlds.

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

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That is correct. (Though usually 3.5mm.)

The only places we usually see RS-232 (either swing or TTL) over TRS is estim, funny enough.

My Elecraft KX3 radio's computer link cable is almost the same RS-232 over TRS pinout that the ET312 uses. I think one pin is different, though, and had to build a sort of crossover cable.

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It's more us digging around places like Aliexpress to find what's out there. We're just dedicated. :D

Care to name some of the favorite/popular ones? You know... for science.

For reliability, if you just want a vibrator of some form factor to work with, go with something by Lovense (except for the Max, which is kinda shit). Easy to get, just works most of the time, decent ecosystem. https://lovense.com

If you just want the absolute god damn cheapest but still computer controllable wand, the Youou Wand for $16 (I buy these in bulk to give out at workshops): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07F6XWF2F/

For strokers, Kiiroo Launch (aka Fleshlight Launch but branding is changing currently). Not the best thing on earth, but it does the job right now and there's currently an open source firmware rewrite happening (because there's some masochist out there that loves reading PIC24 assembly. Yes it's fucking PIC24 based.)

If you've got a 3d printer, the (currently mostly penile stimulation focused) OSR2+: https://patreon.com/tempestvr. Something like $2-8 for plans, 3D printable in about 2 days on a stock printer, multi-axis movement, vibrate development community and a ton of add-ons happening.

There's also really interesting DIY stuff happening on the vibrator/small controls side at:

https://www.touchyfeely.tech/ http://www.bodyinteraction.com

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

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Hey nice project. You may want to consider changing domains though "No .IO domain may be used, directly or indirectly, for any purpose that is sexual or pornographic" https://www.nic.io/rules.htm

Porntoken.io has been up for several years with no problems. Also porntoken was the first project to do teledildonics with the lovense toys through the Ethereum blockchain. https://github.com/porntoken/EthereumDildoMonitor We had a live model at the late Dennis Hoffs cathouse near Reno with a lovense in her vajayjay taking ETH porntoken ICO investments in her toy through the ethereum blockchain. Porntoken is largely…

>We had a live model at the late Dennis Hoffs cathouse near Reno with a lovense in her vajayjay taking ETH porntoken ICO investments in her toy through the ethereum blockchain.

I'm a native English speaker, but apparently not a native teledildonics speaker. I can't make heads or tails of this sentence.

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

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Hi! Buttplug Project Lead here! AMA!

I always imagined using a technology like this would feel really contrived. Like the number of dimensions of expression, or sensation you can impose on another person using it are so limited that it would almost feel kind of silly. The only thing you can really impact in a meaningful way seems to be timing. But good sexual experiences require so much more, pressure variation, directionality to name a few things. Can you comment?

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How is this not an example of commodity fetishism?

As I understand it, the concept refers to reifying relationships between humans as relationships between things. Is this an example of that? People use this kind of stuff for the most varied reasons: long distance partners buy one for their SO, people online hand remote controls to roleplay doms... Hardly what Marx had in mind when criticising commodity fetishism ;)

Leaving aside how to apply marxian analysis to household relations, non-professional sexual partners, and so forth - the case of how people conceive cam sex workers using these things is an unambiguous example of marxian fetish. Your "human relations disguised as a relation between things" is laid pretty bare, there. That it also puns as "fetish" in a more conventional vulgar sense is just icing on that cake.

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

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The only places we usually see RS-232 (either swing or TTL) over TRS is estim, funny enough.

My Elecraft KX3 radio's computer link cable is almost the same RS-232 over TRS pinout that the ET312 uses. I think one pin is different, though, and had to build a sort of crossover cable.

Ok, since you're familiar with the ET-312...

You know we reversed the ET-312 to the circuit level, right? :)

https://github.com/buttshock/mk312-bt

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

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As I understand it, the concept refers to reifying relationships between humans as relationships between things. Is this an example of that? People use this kind of stuff for the most varied reasons: long distance partners buy one for their SO, people online hand remote controls to roleplay doms... Hardly what Marx had in mind when criticising commodity fetishism ;)

Leaving aside how to apply marxian analysis to household relations, non-professional sexual partners, and so forth - the case of how people conceive cam sex workers using these things is an unambiguous example of marxian fetish. Your "human relations disguised as a relation between things" is laid pretty bare, there. That it also puns as "fetish" in a more conventional vulgar sense is just icing on that cake.

Ugggggggh I have a book chapter waiting to be published on ideas of labor and proxemics in digital intimacy that covers some of this.

So like, remember to check for that in September.

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On those first two, we use Tampermonkey as a research platform for A/B testing integration with stock web interfaces. https://github.com/buttplugio/buttplug-tampermonkey On the tracking of muscle contractions, I'd recommend checking out the Nogasm project, an open source orgasm denial system that uses air pressure changes to track pelvic floor contractions, which are indicative of arousal levels. These could be track…

Woah, woah, woah. Hold up, full stop. >Passive reception of dildonic signals is emphasized, active transmission of signals that originate as muscle contractions (and such) gets the short shrift. Just want to make sure I understand what you're asking here; because it sounds to me like you're asking something along the lines of "Hey, the vibrating device is neat, but I'd actually like a device that can directly stimula…

> Just want to make sure I understand what you're asking here; because it sounds to me like you're asking something along the lines of "Hey, the vibrating device is neat, but I'd actually like a device that can directly stimulate movement of the device wearer's muscle groups on reception of a remote signal. Can you do that?"

> ...because if that is what you're asking, the very idea horrified me at the prospect of the new forms of abuse that technology would enable. And I don't mean "abuse" in a good connotation either.

E-stim is already a thing, it just lacks (so far) the remote aspect.

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