Last week, after 4+ years of trying to figure out some completely cross platform solution before even starting to build my sex toy server application, I decided to just do a quick implementation in C#, which should at least cover Windows 10 Creators Update (possibly earlier versions if you don't mind losing BLE device support), and possibly iOS and Android if Xamarin works out.Turns out, this ended up being a pretty good idea, because I now have a basic system working that can communicate via json over websockets, to control the Fleshlight Launch, as well as gamepad rumble. I'm now working on getting a simple CLI and GUI together for it, as well as some documentation and tests, and I'm hoping to make a v0.0.1 release this week.

I just posted the first edition of my new weekly open source sex tech development log! Read all about what the open source buttplug development community has been up to this week.https://www.metafetish.com/2017/04/26/metafetish-dev-log--week-of-20170424/

For those that don't want to watch via Youtube, Buttplugin' with qDot is now available for download on Internet Archive! https://archive.org/details/buttplugin-with-qdot-episode-0001-fleshlight-launch-overview-and-teardown

I'll be building an RSS feed for these soon too, so they can be used in podcast/vidcast apps.

That's actually not mine (forwarding it to Internet of Dongs) but hey I can grab protocols before I reship. Vibratissimo Sette. Germany "underwear" toy. Has a temperature sensor as well as vibration, but there are no buttons on the device. It actually just stays on, constantly broadcasting until it dies. Only way to control it is an app that also has weird micro transaction purchases.

New blog post going up on buttplug.io tomorrow, but you get to read it first!--

When writing software for hobby projects, there's a tendency to go "Oh, I want to learn [thing]" and add that to the stack of things required to build the project. So far, buttplug has been no exception.

So, after talking to some people about the Fleshlight Launch hacking last night, I realized that the Launch really could work with almost any ona-hole style toy, all you need is a shim. Gosh. If only there was a way to get custom made, one-off plastics... :3

We're now working on some CAD models for 3D printing that should fit in the Fleshlight Launch, and allow usage of non-fleshlight toys like Tenga, Spider, etc. this would also allow for different toy offsets, as the Launch itself has a good .5-1" gap that would usually be filled by the extra length of the fleshlight insert.

For anyone not watching twitter tonight, I ended up livetweeting my reverse engineering and teardown of the fleshlight launch. I'll be writing up documentation and making a video too, but it's just too much fun to tweet stuff while I'm doing it (streaming soon hopefully!).If you want to experience the thread, it's at

https://twitter.com/qDot/status/844357346402873344

The problem with most sex toys is that no one is really trying to hide protocols these days, so once I get the hardware, this takes maybe half an hour.Vorze was no different.

I've created the documentation repo at

My Vorze (http://vorzeinteractive.com)) arrives today! Mostly hacking this one due to interest from the RealTouchScripter forums at http://www.realtouchscripts.com, same reason I'm working on the Fleshlight Launch. Small but engaged community, not to mention they share my nostalgia for the RealTouch. :)

I now have a Kiiroo/Fleshlight Launch and a Vorze A10 Cyclone on there way to do. I have a feeling the Launch will just be the Kiiroo protocol as it is at the moment, but it'll be fun to see what the Battleship Cockrobot looks like in person (no seriously it's huge. http://fleshlight.com/launch)..) The Vorze (http://vorzeinteractive.com)) is a Japanese toy that finally got american release. Having looked through their player software (which is literally just libvlc plus a tiny bit of glue code, and all in japanese), it seems to just be a using a USB VCP/Serial driver. Hopefully that should come apart pretty quick.

Anyways, new fun stuff to take apart, partially thanks to Patron cash! Thanks again for supporting Metafetish!