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
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. :)
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
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!
So maybe you're wondering why I started a patreon now, well after that bandwagon has already set down the highway at full speed? Like I said in the campaign description, there's a lot of toys coming out now. I really want to reverse engineer all of them so I can continue my plans for world domination via genital manipulation robots. However, it's getting kinda spendy to keep buying stuff myself. For instance, I dropped $600 on the ET-312 last year, and while we've gotten a HUGE amount of reversing milage out of that (more on that in a later post), that was still super spendy.