Recent content by jabjab231

As long as there's still at least one person here who has thoughts they'd like to share, I'd be happy to field questions. There aren't many broad decisions left to be made that don't require technical knowledge of programming or electronics, but I'll check in here for input on everything else...

I can play Bach's fugues so maybe that's my problem... I heard a story of an avante garde pianist who once held a concert at which he played a single note. The idea was that it was supposedly the perfect note at that pitch. I have a really hard time accepting that idea though since with a piano...

So far I've written over 2000 lines of code for the core programming, which all up has probably taken over 12 hours. Believe me, I have spent a great deal more time and effort working on this thing than talking about it. But you're right, people won't care until we actually have something to...

And now we're back to people misunderstanding the point of the machine again. I'll just post to say this machine isn't intended for rape any more than forced orgasm fetish is about rape. If it's just not your cup of tea then fine, but since you've said you're "against" it I have to assume it's...

I think we've reached the death of this thread too somehow. I guess I severely overestimated the amount of enthusiasm for the idea. I'll just go back to lurking until I have something more to post.

Well if you're going to count instruments that way, I can play the... Piano Electric piano Synthesizer Harpsichord Clavichord Clavinet Pipe organ Reed organ Tonewheel organ Celeste And that most loathsome of musical instruments, the calliope. Epic redundancy win :stickout

I'm just a snob for musical education. I've tried working with a guitarist who couldn't read music and didn't even know the notes on her own guitar. Soon as I started speaking in chords I'd lost her. As a result, I have an unfairly low opinion of most guitarists :glare How the heck do you play...

Ok here's a really bad example of how I might achieve what I'm after. The person developing the game happens to like using game maker. To send commands to the tickling machine it writes command strings to text files. There'll be a few text files that are used. The tickle machine is constantly...

Working on a system to save settings. Visual Basic has a weird way of accessing files, but the premise is simple; you just save the values to a text file then load it up when you start again. That way you can have a different file for each position the module might be used in. But anyway, I'm...

Now we're back where we started but at least we seem to be on the same page now. I'm not the one making the game. I'm just writing the software for the machine. I want that software to be available to other game makers so they can use any language they please. The game's programming is in...

The programming will be free and the schematics will be free. You'll have to build it yourself though I'm afraid :) I guess you'd call it semi-automated. At first I thought it would be enough for it to have an off-on switch but I've gotten a little more ambitious thinking how other programs...

I agree, the ability to switch brushes will ensure it's more effective for everyone and is more in the spirit of the machine. It just means we'll need clamps that can hold a variety of brushes of every shape and size.

I assure you this thread has nothing whatsoever to do with tickling videos. I'm looking for candidates as tickling devices for a real-life tickling machine (yeah you probably think I'm even more nuts now). Maximum effect is the goal at the moment since a tickling machine that can't tickle is...

I've decided to go with 10 levels of intensity for a few reasons. If the user can't be bothered spending twice the time calibrating the machine they can just copy paste every second value. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. It save game makers the hassle of worrying about intensity levels. All the...

How long to calibrate? Hard to say. I think a safe estimate would be half an hour to an hour for a full-body complement of tickling modules each with 10 levels of intensity but there are a lot of things to consider. Originally I thought you'd just come up with a single calibration and as long...