Yup! If it vibrates, we support it. The XBox controller (and other rumble gamepads) are probably the most widely owned vibrators, so hey, why not?

I'm still trying to find a bluetooth electric toothbrush with a controls API. Most of them just have timers. :(

Qdot did I ever show you, like 8 years ago after some Arse Elektronica, my thrusting brushless linear motor based sex machine? I designed and built brushless linear motors from scratch as well as the drive electronics. Anyway I never made it in to a business and lately think I will open source it all. I was going to ask for your email but I just discovered metafetish, so I can post something there. I'll do so in a few days.

Anyway I haven't seen you in 8-10 years but it's good to see you around here!

TAYLOR

DUDE

WHERE THE HELL YOU BEEN

Yeah you brought it to Jupiter when we met there way back when!

I've been talking about it again lately because more people are building machines and I was all "Man I wonder what that dude is up to and if he's still working on that machine"

I'll throw you email at your address in your bio!

Is there anything more beautiful than seeing two old friends reconnect over memories of a motorized sex machine?

Not just motorized but with custom built linear motors. Impressive!

Hah yessss email me!

In 2013 I switched from sex toys to Flutter Wireless (based on the wireless remote from the sex toy) and my kickstarter for Flutter met its funding goal. Six years of continuous burnout ensued. [1]

Now I’m largely recovered and working half time to allow for open source development like my off road robot. [2]

Hope you’ve been well and looking forward to catching up more. :)

[1] https://youtu.be/huOzokY_fME [2] https://reboot.love/t/new-cameras-on-rover/

Wow the off-road rover is spectacular. My old roommate and I built one years ago, but out of hope, dreams, kapton tape and an iPhone running Skype (https://twitter.com/martinmroz/status/518511940675440640?s=2...).

Oooh that looks like fun!

Screw the sex machine part (heh!), I want to hear about designing your own brushless linear motors!

Heh yeah I am going to put some stuff on github and I suppose make a YouTube video about it.

You can read the patent I filed though. I don’t think patents are cool anymore but at the time I was a lifelong goal:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20130237751A1/en

If you ever find one, let me know. I'd love to have a sonicare that just lets me use its power button as a simple on/off toggle. No timers, no 30-second stutters. Not even joking.

I’m pretty sure you can disable those if you look in the manual.

You can reset the brush back to easy-start mode, and do a thing where you reset the two minute timer. Haven't found a way to do just a simple on/off/no timer, though. I found this rather amazing rabbit hole of a page while looking:

https://www.animated-teeth.com/electric_toothbrushes/b-sonic...

This says... something about modern dev practices. I'm not sure what.

Hey qdot! Not sure if we've ever met, but definitely talked a bunch around the Comingle days...glad you're still working to make this happen! - Craig (formerly @ Comingle)

CRAIG! Hey! I think we talked once, during the lawsuit days. I still talk to Andrew every so often, and Comingle still comes up a lot!

Hoping to do a video on my youtube channel about it soon, still have my Mod!

My dental insurance, Beam, sent me a free Bluetooth toothbrush when my company signed up. There's a companion app with plenty of settings to change power and patterns too. It may be worth looking into!

If you could let me know the brand/model, that'd be great. Thanks!

There used to be a “purring kitty” app for the old Symbian Nokia phones that was very popular, there were even special cases made for those phones I wonder if there is one for an Xbox controller.

Man I used to download that app not knowing what it was intended for. I thought it was just an app to test your phone's vibrator.

One can’t help but wonder how much that trend has accelerated now that the modern phone is waterproof and trivially cleaned.

The phones are much larger today too large to be inserted* tho.

*comfortably, by most people I would assume.

Lots of vibrators aren’t inserted.

The scope of things that people, usually teenagers, use as a vibrator is surprisingly wide. It’s not uncommon for game controllers and phones to serve this purpose for those who can’t get a dedicated device.

The thing that comes to mind is the Harry Potter broom that vibrated to simulate flight, which had to be recalled after parents were outraged; although honestly I feel like everyone should’ve seen that coming.

Probably the same prudish parents who got outraged over the ET Finger Light.

https://2warpstoneptune.com/2015/02/13/e-t-finger-light-knic...

Or the Dune Sandworm Action Figure:

https://2warpstoneptune.com/2014/08/28/ljns-dune-toys-sandwo...

Sometimes a Dune Sandworm Action Figure is only a Dune Sandworm Action Figure.

I didn't imagine Xbox controller fit in the butt.

Yes. Please do not put the controller in your butt.

With enough peanut butter and acceleration, all things are possible.