The Open Banana Project

These pages describe my efforts to creating open hardware and software platforms for sex toys. In particular, there is a focus on “hands free” dynamic physical stimulation. Sybians and Venus 2000s have been out for at least a couple decades, but, $1-2k+ to start exploring is pretty steep for most people.. And, for that matter, they are not very dynamic in the type of stimulation they provide. They are probably great products and well worth the money, but , modern technology has made it really easy to interface physical devices and sensors with easily programmed devices — So, why not build your own?

In these pages, I assume that somebody starts with minimal “maker” type knowledge. I will walk through my journal and try to document the methods I used to create the projects that I do.

Sadly (or not), I think there are a lot of good tips here for doing little “maker” type projects — breadboarding, soldering, basic circuitry, microcontroller programmming, etc. But, the main subject of this blog will probably guarantee that people never see them 🙁

My hope is to both enable other people to explore on their own as well as to provide a relatively flexible architecture to get people exploring effectively. This is more a collection of tricks I have gained while pursuing this hobby rather than anything that is particularly “special”.

Here is the big list of chapters so far:

Chapter 0: Intro to some of the Enabling Technology
Chapter 1: Playing with little vibrating motors
Chapter 2: Digital Control of Little Motors
Sidenote 1: Revisiting Controlling 1 Vibrator
Sidenote 2: Building LED Visualizers
Chapter 3: Controlling lots of vibrating motors

To come…. first programs, automated T&D, interfacing orgasm detectors