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Touchy-Feely Tech is a candidate for Female Founder Competition

Touchy-Feely Tech is a candidate for Female Founder Competition

The UK-based Startup magazine is looking for the best female startup company. Touchy-Feely is on the short list and you can vote for them. Touchy-Feely develops educational electronic sex toy kits accompanied by workshops on basic and advanced sex toy topics. The founders have committed to building the funniest, most educational and pleasurable DIY electronics and coding kit out there. They are…

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Touchy-Feely Tech is a candidate for Female Founder Competition

Touchy-Feely Tech is a candidate for Female Founder Competition

The UK-based Startup magazine is looking for the best female startup company. Touchy-Feely is on the short list and you can vote for them. Touchy-Feely develops educational electronic sex toy kits accompanied by workshops on basic and advanced sex toy topics. The founders have committed to building the funniest, most educational and pleasurable DIY electronics and coding kit out there. They are…

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Another ring printed with Elegoo Mars Resin Printer

Since a few month, I own an Elegoo Mars Resin printer. It has UV LCD screen for “printing” each layer. In addition, I have an Elegoo Mercury Wash & Cure machine for a few weeks. These machines are incredibly affordable, they work and have a high resolution. The print space is rather small (120 (L) x 68 x 155 (H) mm). I will print a ring for the BI2 board and a vibration motor. Resin printing is a…

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Vibration pattern

Vibration pattern for your DIY sex toy

Maybe you want to add some vibration pattern to your BI2 toy? With the Blynk app you can easily add a slider to control the speed of the vibration motor. But how do you implement a sinus mode? First, you have to introduce a way to remember that you are in this sinus mode. this is easily done by introducing a boolean variable which remember the state (mode) you are in. bool sinusMode = 0; Then you…

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Controlling two BI2 with Blynk

Controlling more than one body interaction 2 boards is very easy.

At first go to project settings in the Blynk app, go to devices and add a new device.

Then create a new device and press Email. You will get an Email with the auth token.

Add slider widget for the motor and another ZEGBRA widget for controlling the LED. For LED select a new virtual pin, e.g. V10.

Then reuse  the code from this…

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New body interaction 2 (BI2) boards available

The BI2 vibrator development boards are available at Tindie.  You have now 3 three options:

PCB only 29$

kit 39$: PCB + 2 motors + LiPo battery + 2 motors + 2 JST-SH connectors (BUT connectors not soldered /connected to the motors)

complete kit 49$: the same as the kit but connectors soldered to the motors

If you now how to solder / connect wires: Please select the kit as I am not good doing…

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Sending motion data to the Blynk app (part 2 of the Blynk tutorial)

Sending DIY sex toy motion data to the Blynk app #sextech #Blynk #Arduino #ESP8266

In the first blog postwe explained the basics of controlling the body interaction 2 (BI2) vibrator development board using the concept of  (virtual) pins. This time we want to send data from the BI2 board to the Blynk app. The BI2 has the MPU-9250 9DoF (9 Degrees of Freedom) IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) sensor on board. This sensor is a combination of an accelerometer, gyroscope and…

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Programming the body interaction 2 (BI2) with Blynk part 1

Programming the body interaction 2 board with Blynk part 1 #blynk #ESP8266 #arduino # sextech

This in an intro to using and programming the BI2 with the Blnyk app. Read here how to set up Arduino. For a more general basic intro (based on the body interaction 1 board) read here.

Pins

The communication between app and BI2 microcontroller is realized by pins. The idea is very easy: Each widget in the Blynk app is connected to a physical pin of the microcontroller. Every microcontroller has…

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The new BI2 black vibrator development board

The new body interaction vibrator development board is available

The new black BI2 board is ready. I have a few assembled boards ready for shipping. Have a look at www.tindie.com

3 JST 1mm plugs (battery, motor 2, motor 3), LED, reset button, M+/M- is for motor 1 JST 1mm plug for motor 1, alternative RESET button

Features

ESP8266 Microcontroller with WLAN

MPU9250 (accelerometer, gyroscope)

LiPo battery charging

3 motors can be connected (simple motor driver…

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Blynk: Controlling BI2 from the smartphone

Blynk: DIY vibrator control from the smartphone

Readers ask me for an easy way to control the body interaction vibrator development board. Without or with limited  programming knowledge, without complicated Internet of thing technology, like the visual programming tool NODERED or the MQTT protocol and server.

That’s what Blynkis for. Started in 2016 as a kickstarter  campaign, they have built a tool which hides a lot of the complexity of the…

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BI2 - building a silicone sex toy

Building the first ESP8266 driven sex toy

Now let’s build the first ESP8266 vibrator. I use the reliable design from this blog post and the new BI2 board. The new BI2 board can be controlled from any smart phone or computer.

As the BI2 board is round there is no need to build a case for the PCB and the LiPo. The easist way is to glue the battery directly on the ESP8266. Connect the battery and one or more vibration motors with the BI2…

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BI2: ESP8266 Vibrator Development Board - becoming colourful

BI2: ESP8266 Vibrator Development Board – becoming colourful

The second version of the development board – I will call it BI2 from now on –  has some improvements:

I used more components of the original design (Adafruit Huzzah) instead of comparable (and cheaper) Seeedstudio Open Part Library components. The reason for this is easy. The Adafruit design is reliable and approved. No need for designing your own circuits, no risk to fail. (But also no fun in…

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Making of an ESP8266 Vibrator Development Board - traps and pitfalls

Making of an ESP8266 Vibrator Development Board - traps and pitfalls #sextech @SeeedFusion #maker #DIY #ESP8266

About a year ago I made a ESP8266 based design for a vibrator development board including IMU, motor driver and battery charging. The design was based on the Adafruit ESP Huzaah, but I used components of Seeedstudio Open Parts Library. This is a library of parts (IC, connector, resistors) which are stocked at Seeedstudio especially for their PCBA (printed circuit board assembly) service. PCBA is…

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Basic Node for the Internet of Sex Toys - part 3: software

Coding the #ESP8266 driven internet of sex toy node #sextech #DIY #Arduino

This the third part of the tutorial which has the following parts:

part 1: Basic Node for the Internet of Sex Toys

part 2: Molding the Basic Node

part 3: Software for the Basic Node

For the basic node a simple software realizes all features like Mqtt communication, Web server, basic web user interface, reading data from the accelerometer. Please use the code at github and send request over…

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Molding the Basic Node for the Internet of Sex Toys - part 2

Molding the Basic Node for the Internet of Sex Toys #sextech #DIY #ESP8266

In this series of posts we describe how-to make a vibrating sex toy which is part of the Internet of Things.

part 1: Basic Node for the Internet of Sex Toys

part 2: Molding the Basic Node

part 3: Software for the Basic Node

In part 2 we describe how-to make a mold form for the basic node. We need three forms:

the mold form which consists of two parts

the inlay which protects the electronics of…

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Basic Node for the Internet of Sex Toys (part 1)

Basic Node for the Internet of Sex Toys #esp8266 #sextech #DIY

Wemos mini modules: ESP8266, motor driver and battery charging (in the middle); Wireless charging module (right side); wireless charging coil (top side); encapsulated vibration motors (left side)

In previous posts we showed how to build a vibrating sex toy in principle as part of the Internet of Things (IOT). In addition we have selected a hardware platform – the popular ESP8266 – for controlling…

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More Sex Tech Projects

More (#opensource) #sextech projects

There are at least a few (new) open source or DIY projects. Future of Sex reported about a Strap-on project named Dildo It Yourself.

They created a website for sharing designs for strap-on dildos. In addition the strap-on dildos is part of a harness. Some parts can be 3d printed but the harness must be made by leather or other material which could be out of scope for most DIY people. The…