Unboxing and assembling of vibrator development board

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The body interaction development board includes everything to start: the board, the LiPo battery and a vibration motor. Put it together in a few minutes. All you need now is a 3d printed case.

We give away a limited number of body interaction development boards for free. Please send a short description of your project with your email, mail address (and website) to info@bodyinteraction.com. Only available outside the US due to patent trolls.  Please send us a photo or video when the project is finished. Your data are not given to anyone else and will be deleted on request.

Video in Youtube

In the next post we show you how to assemble a 3d printed case and the body interaction development board.

vibrator development boards arrived

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boards arrived one boxWe proudly annouce the arrival of the body interaction vibrator development board. Each board is packed in a small box. In this box is the board, a LiPo battery and the vibration motor. Connect motor and LiPo to the board and it works: The vibration motor changes speed according to your motions.

Thanks to Seeedstudio for this amazing work!

 

 

 

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New vibrator design for the vibrator development board & 3d cases

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Chain of Ball 2

Chain of Ball Vibrator design with cap

The new design catches the “chain of balls” design theme used in some sex toys. It was constructed in Tinkercad and it is really simple to do it on your own. This how-to video explains the construction in detail.

 

 

 

many balls body interaction vibrator development board

The design is composed from several spheres

Try it on your own in Tinkercad. Just grab a sphere, make a copy, resize the copy, make a copy again and repeat this until you have a chain of spheres. Now select all sphere and use the “align” tool. That’s it.

The tricky part is the screw cap. This is needed to enclose the body interaction vibrator development board.

 

 

 

 

Chain of Ball vibrator being printed

Chain of Ball vibrator being printed in ABS, XYZ printer 1.0, on the bottom is the support material

Boards are assembled!

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On July, 1 the body interaction vibrator development boards were assembled at Seeedstudio. They helped us a lot in selecting the best parts for the boards. Now all supporters of the Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign will get their perk soon. Thank you for your patience!Assembled board

 

Interested in developing your own OSHW application based on the body interaction vibrator development board? Send an Email to info@bodyinteraction.com

 

Improved vibrator ring

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Ring2_6There is new version of the vibrator ring. The height is smaller than in the original version. As there must be enough space for the vibrator development board, the LiPo battery and the vibration motor the case is larger in height. Board and LiPo are now beside one another. The new case is printed with the daVinci 1.0  3d printer with yellow ABS.

Vibrator ring 2 - 3dModify and create your own with Tinkercad. Or download from Thingiverse.

Dimensions: 78x48x10mm

Improved version! Open with Tinkercad.  Download from Thingiverse.

Visualize and publish sex toy activity – part 2

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In the first how-to we explained how-to upload the data of the body interaction vibrator development board to a database.

Now we want to show you how easy it is to visualize the motion data of one or more body interaction boards. And in the last part of the how-to we set up a webserver. So you can share your activity data with other.

BI activity 3+ HTML

Web form for ploting your sex toy data

What could we learn from this data:

  • how often people use sex toys
  • how long is a typical session
  • motion frequency analysis for orgasm detection

There are manifold application areas for this data:

  • compare (and compete) with others
  • quantify yourself
  • learn more about the quality of sex
  • share benefitable sex toy usage pattern

You could also combine the sex toy data with other fitness data and learn how sex eg. influences your health.

That’s the end of the “record and share sex toy data” series. We would like to know what you think about this. Does it make sense? To complex? Should we develop a body interaction “base station” with a web server? Or would you prefer an app for your smartphone?

Figure: Activity of 3 BI boards over time. Each color represents one BI which has a distinct node ID.

Figure: Activity of 3 BI boards over time. Each color represents one BI which has a distinct node ID.

How a program for the body interaction 1 works

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The P5_fin script (program) is the basic Arduino script which demonstrates all functions available:

  • The speed of the vibration motor is controlled by movements.
  • Movement data are sent to other body interaction boards.
  • Vibration strength is adjusted when near by body interaction boards have different speed

BI1 interaction pattern

How it works:

The P5_fin script reads data from the accelerometer. Depending of the measured motion the vibration motor is speed up or slowed down. (Slow motion = reduce vibration motor speed, fast motion = speed up).

When the measured motion changes the motion data are sent out and can be received by other BI1. At the same time this script listen to other body interaction boards which send their motion data to all listening nodes.

CodebenderWithBI script and parametersWhen the measured motion of other body interaction board are different from the motion measured by this script, the vibration motor is adjusted (speed up or slowed down). So two or more body interaction boards can influence each other and synchronize after some time. The documented script is available in codebender. In this how-to the uploading of the script is explained.

 

New organic vibrator design

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organic_wide_-_hole_20_-_finalWe have two new vibrator cases for the body interaction vibrator development board vibrator. Both have organic forms. The difference between them is the thickness on the top.  Both version comes with a cap which are fixed with three M3 screws.

copy_of_organic_wide_-_hole_20_-_finalThey are constructed with Tinkercad. The design is still simple. The complete form is composed out of 9 half spheres.

Another difference to all earlier designs is a change in the inner hole form. It is smaller to fit better the development board.

Printout with XYZ printer, ABS:

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Try to construct your own with Tinkercad:
https://tinkercad.com/things/5aSU5KCTWal
https://tinkercad.com/things/k8JcnN2Eqtj (wide)

Or download from Thingiverse:

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:813747

Record and share sex toy activity

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John Millward showed in his recent study that there is not much knowledge about sex toy usage. By analysing buying behaviour in UK biggest online store he learned a lot about who is interested in which kind of toy (men/woman, single/attached). But who will use the toy which one has bought for what and for how long is still unknown.

Activity of 3 BI boards over time. Each color represents one BI which has a distinct node ID.

Activity of 3 body interaction (BI) vibration development boards over time. Each color represents one BI.

The body interaction vibrator development board recognizes activity (motion) data and sends the data to other boards or to a server. So it is possible to upload the usage data of one or multiple vibrators to a (internet) database.

What could we learn from this data:

  • how often people use sex toys
  • how long is a typical session
  • usage pattern: on your own or with your partner
  • handling of the vibrator
  • motion frequency analysis for orgasm detection

There are manifold application areas for this data:

  • compare (and compete) with others
  • quantify yourself
  • learn more about the quality of sex
  • share benefitable sex toy usage pattern

You could also combine the sex toy data with other fitness data and learn how sex eg. influences your health.

With the body interaction vibrator development board it is easy to upload the data. In this how-to we explain how it is done. In the next blog post we will explain the presentation of sex toy activity plots in the web.