Hate to have to agree with you but it looks like you're right. If we'd made a thread about just discussing the possibility of a tickling machine we'd get plenty of replies from people regarding how they could envisage one, but there's no motivation at all to take it to the next level. As frustrating as that is, I still appreciate this community for giving me a place to explore my fetish over the past year. I'll be happy if people just do something with what we create when we've got a working prototype. If not, well then I'll be really depressed.
Just bought my first electric toothbrush. They had two kinds their: normal toothbrushes that just vibrate and the ones with small, rotating brushes. I got one of the rotating ones since it has its own recharger as opposed to using batteries, and I figure at the very least I could cannibalize and learn from the rotary mechanisms. Might only need a replacement motor to get decent results.
Haven't tested it yet since I've just spend the last 10 minutes trying to hack my way into the bloody plastic wrapping it was in. For a single tickling implement it was a little expensive ($AU40) to use extensively. I was hoping maybe one between each toe but that would be to the tune of around $AU480 for the toothbrushes alone. However, you can buy replacement heads individually for much less so if we rig up several of those to a single motor that would reduce costs and probably produce better results anyway.
I think I'll have to learn more about simple robotics before I start investing in that part of the machine. I need to make sure the micro-controller is powerful enough and flexible enough to handle all the commands that will be sent through it. We're talking about really small amounts of data so I seriously doubt even the cheapest boards would have problems but better safe than sorry.
Just bought my first electric toothbrush. They had two kinds their: normal toothbrushes that just vibrate and the ones with small, rotating brushes. I got one of the rotating ones since it has its own recharger as opposed to using batteries, and I figure at the very least I could cannibalize and learn from the rotary mechanisms. Might only need a replacement motor to get decent results.
Haven't tested it yet since I've just spend the last 10 minutes trying to hack my way into the bloody plastic wrapping it was in. For a single tickling implement it was a little expensive ($AU40) to use extensively. I was hoping maybe one between each toe but that would be to the tune of around $AU480 for the toothbrushes alone. However, you can buy replacement heads individually for much less so if we rig up several of those to a single motor that would reduce costs and probably produce better results anyway.
I think I'll have to learn more about simple robotics before I start investing in that part of the machine. I need to make sure the micro-controller is powerful enough and flexible enough to handle all the commands that will be sent through it. We're talking about really small amounts of data so I seriously doubt even the cheapest boards would have problems but better safe than sorry.
