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Throwaway time!

I built a custom smart motorized masturbator.

It borrows from 3D printer design, and has a NEMA 17 stepper motor driving a 2GT belt loop around a short length of 2020 extrusion to slide a carriage along a linear rail. The carriage has attachment points that I've put clamps on, that close around a fleshlight-style sheath. There's a brace at the business end that you put around the base of the penis and it keeps everything aligned.

All the parts are custom-designed and 3d printed.

It has an outboard control box that contains:

  - an ESP32-based microcontroller with a small OLED screen. 
  - a clickable rotary encoder that is the single input control
  - a TMC2209 stepper driver
  - 12v power input and a buck converter to feed the esp32
  - 12v output ports for 2 additional vibrators and an an H-bridge module to control them
The simple UI allows full control over the motion:

  - stroke duration
  - stroke amplitude
  - offset from the 0 position
  - motion path (just sinusoidal vs triangle wave so far)
The controls also allow control over the secondary vibrators for intensity, rhythm, and duty cycle.

It's been evolving for a couple years now and it works brilliantly!



I cannot believe that username was available.


Such a shame it's a throwaway. They should keep it!


>I cannot believe that username was available.

Have you seen anything hornier?

>Such a shame it's a throwaway. They should keep it!

I expect he'll come again.


Does it have Apple Health integration?


They do say you should scratch your own itch


You can't leave us hanging like that. No pictures of this thing?


Finding bugs must be unpleasant.


Nah, there are no bugs if you wash it after every use.


Gross >.<

Hilarious, but gross


mr. fancypants here with the silent tmc2209 driver lol


Gotta switch to some a4988s so the machine can moan back.


Just to toss one out there…

You need a fitness tracker and some machine learning to really get your freak on.

Sorry, too tired to come up with a good robot innuendo.


There's a tool you might like: https://buttplug.io/


Dude, you have to write this up!


Commercialize it




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