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#62Really cool! Is reverse engineering the wireless protocol easy? I imagine hacking hardware involves a lot more work than software. I also love how she 3d printed out some plastic cases for her toy. I see cheap 3d printers eventually being so ubiquitous that a quick prototype may be just as easy to hack up as a working software program.
I can't wait for easily and cheaply 3d-printed electronics. Just the thought of buying the parts and plastic stuff, putting them in a machine, and letting it work, building a complete device. I can dream.
I wonder if there is some order-to-3dprint business out there?
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#63I cannot express how much I admire this post. This is how I think women should address gender equality: not by antagonizing men, but through sound and assertive work like this.
define: backhanded compliment
Not at all. I truly admire it. I recognize I don't even have the technical skills to replicate it (I wish). It was never my intention to belittle her efforts, I'm sorry if my comment came out like that.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why does any article focusing on women's experience have to have someone come along and say 'it's hard for us men'?
I sympathize with that point, but there's more to it than "what about teh menz?" The question is this: is this doing well on HN because HN is full of progressive-minded feminists upvoting a neat DIY project on its merits, or is it doing well on HN because it serves as fodder for the nerd-girl fantasies of a primarily male readership? I really think this is an important point that often gets missed on male dominated s…
No need for stereotypes. The article deserves to be up voted because it is remarkably thorough and well written.
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#65In all seriousness, somebody needs to disrupt internet porn again.
If you trying and look for it on google all you get is shitty "tube" websites full of autoplaying livejasmin ads and links that go round in circles.
The content is terrible too, either staged "reality" BS , stuff designed to shock more than titilate, unwatchable crap made with a smartphone or weird softcore stuff that tries to be "arty" or "feminist".
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't wait for easily and cheaply 3d-printed electronics. Just the thought of buying the parts and plastic stuff, putting them in a machine, and letting it work, building a complete device. I can dream.
I wonder if there is some order-to-3dprint business out there?
There are, but none of them print circuits.
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#67Really cool! Is reverse engineering the wireless protocol easy? I imagine hacking hardware involves a lot more work than software. I also love how she 3d printed out some plastic cases for her toy. I see cheap 3d printers eventually being so ubiquitous that a quick prototype may be just as easy to hack up as a working software program.
I can't wait for easily and cheaply 3d-printed electronics. Just the thought of buying the parts and plastic stuff, putting them in a machine, and letting it work, building a complete device. I can dream.
Well, the more I looked into this possibility, the more I think it's not going to look like traditional electronics that we know. Chances are, somebody's working on this right now, and we just don't know about it.
There's been some promising blips here and there with the reprappers:
http://blog.reprap.org/2011/06/new-approach-to-printing-meta...
http://blog.reprap.org/2012/04/some-more-printed-circuitry.h...
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
I sympathize with that point, but there's more to it than "what about teh menz?" The question is this: is this doing well on HN because HN is full of progressive-minded feminists upvoting a neat DIY project on its merits, or is it doing well on HN because it serves as fodder for the nerd-girl fantasies of a primarily male readership? I really think this is an important point that often gets missed on male dominated s…
No need for stereotypes. The article deserves to be up voted because it is remarkably thorough and well written.
I agree that it deserves to be upvoted for those reasons. I just don't think that's necessarily the primary reason it has been upvoted. Examining the "would this be ranked this high if it were about penis hacking instead?" question is productive because it addresses that.
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#69This is a really cool hack, but my problem is that I don't understand the sex part. What's better about waving your hands around to control the motor speed, vs. using a dial? This is not out of prurient interest. I just can't understand the engineering without understanding the use case. Maybe you have to be female to get this?
I would almost say that it would make more sense to have something you touch to create the changes in speed or intensity or whatever vs. air waving? And I would think it would be possible to actually use a smartphone (with vibration feedback) that you rub,touch whatever which would be better than air. The feedback is important also. I fly rc helis and once you get used to using the sticks and the channels on a tradit…
I would think some sort of hand-squeeze-o-meter would be ideal.
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#70I wonder if an article called "Hacking my Penis" would ever last long the HN front page.
Sadly the sustained value women can get from a sex toy is so much more than anything a bloke can briefly get. This article deserves to make it to the top for the hackery alone. I doubt if a tube of lube would be as worthy. Hopefully there will a surge of women into the technical fields now they realise they can hack their own sex toys because everything else seems to have failed to attract and retain them in numbers. If they are all like this one it can only be a good thing.