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May 25, 2020

and after talking about abusing connectors for use in sex machines, these sorts of stock images are hitting a little different

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foone

@Foone

May 25, 2020

YEAH, THE ONES FOR ADULTS. I HOPE THAT IS THE ONLY KIND YOU SELL, ALIEXPRESS?!

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foone

@Foone

May 25, 2020

BTW, the use of these various connectors by hismith means you can get cursed adapters like this, which are XLR on one end and quick air connector on the other end. because naturally you might need to convert between compressed air and balanced stereo

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foone

@Foone

May 25, 2020

I also discovered Hismith has an official youtube channel, where they've uploaded a bunch of short videos of their connectors latching and unlatching. Like so: youtube.com/watch?v=kqLaaN

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foone

@Foone

May 25, 2020

can I sue this site for stealing my band name? I play bass for Dixon Hex and the Octagonal Nipples!

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foone

@Foone

May 25, 2020

I was looking at patents and now I'm scared

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foone

@Foone

May 25, 2020

This is the patent for Hismith's sex machine design, btw: patents.google.com/patent/USD8240

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foone

@Foone

May 25, 2020

it doesn't include the attachment, which is the part I was interested in

foone

@Foone

May 25, 2020

hey foone, what's your cyberpunk name?

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foone

@Foone

May 25, 2020

The thing I'm looking for is this, because as someone on discord pointed out, there's no way they custom designed and manufactured this. They're reusing some connector from something else. And I'm trying to figure out what.

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foone

@Foone

May 25, 2020

it definitely appears to be very similar to a pneumatic quick-release coupler, but after looking through a lot of aliexpress I think it might be a custom-made variant of them. the octagonal end piece and the lack of a hole is very distinctive and unusual.

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foone

@Foone

May 25, 2020

They may have had some custom connectors made to make it harder for their products to be cloned, and to prevent compatible unlicensed, uh, "add-ons"

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foone

@Foone

May 25, 2020

can't wait to see the first sex machine with DRM that won't accept unlicensed dildos, you have to get the ones from the manufacturer

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foone

@Foone

May 25, 2020

it's too bad they didn't go for the 4-pin XLR, they could have just run USB over it, with a simple microcontroller inside each attachment...

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foone

@Foone

May 25, 2020

hey, I just found something similar! It's hexagonal, but similar enough that I'm sure it's related. And guess what it is? A quick-release mic stand! Clearly the designer of this machine has a musical background...

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foone

@Foone

May 25, 2020

from some angles you can see "You Tian" on the connectors, and there's a maker of pneumatic connectors that look very similar.

foone

@Foone

May 25, 2020

so yeah. custom variants of existing cables.

foone

@Foone

May 25, 2020

and by cables I of course mean connectors.

foone

@Foone

BTW, if you want to scary audio production friends, send them this picture, which I'm intentionally breaking the link for (it's a vibrator/dildo with an XLR plug sticking out the back) ae01.alicdn .com/kf/H5ec389a23c6a4bd8a65c8fc47725a7a8e.jpg

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I got one of the weird connectors. it's... weird.

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foone

@Foone

May 28, 2020

The XLR connector just unscrews, because this is just a standard XLR connector that they've repackaged, it's not some special-made thing.

foone

@Foone

May 28, 2020

And the other end unscrews too

foone

@Foone

May 28, 2020

And that weird octagonal connector is a single piece with a screw hole on the other end.

foone

@Foone

May 28, 2020

and I'll post dimensions when I finally figure out where my calipers went

foone

@Foone

May 28, 2020

Also the box it came in had this sexy cat man on it. I don't know why.

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foone

@Foone

May 29, 2020

I found the calipers, in case anyone needs the dimensions of this octagonal chuck this is probably far from the best way to diagram these dimensions but I have too much headache to try doing anything better than MSPAINT

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@darklordoflinux

May 25, 2020

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My eyes!

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good thing it's censored!

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@Lynxgespuis

May 25, 2020

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Am I gonna need speaker or mic cables for this?

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If it were speaker, it should be using speakon connectors. (Dear God, please don't tell me they have a speakon version...)

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damn I bet that has great tone

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WHA T T hE. fuck

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May 26, 2020

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I hate to say it but technically this makes GG Allin a prophet.

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It's times like this I wish Big Clive was on Twitter.

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