Projects – ROBOHEMIAN

Carl el Robo Flamingo

Carl the Parasitic Hoverboard Driving Robot

December 5, 2019spetku0 Comments

Before the year wraps up, I decided to give a final shot at getting at least one of my robot children mobile. truly mobile. In a meaningful way. I’ve spent the majority of this year working on developing NoodleFeet’s new body, so it felt fair to show Carl a little attention and love. As a recap- “Carl” is one of my characters, a ball-balancing robot made from the body of a plastic lawn ornament. I set out to actually build him in-real-life four years ago, but the endeavor was just hard enough that it required I rely on Mark to do the majority of the coding. In the end, it was also too difficult for even Mark, the wizard of programming, to muscle through. ::sad sigh:: Someone in a conversation I had recently blurted out the concept of “exploiting” technology that has already solved the annoying part of the problem…

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April was the Month of Suck

May 2, 2019spetku0 Comments

SHE BON: the Suck Choker & Squeeze Choker This month, I began developing my first new SHE BON augment of the year! I haven’t really decided on a name for it yet, but for now I’ve been referring to it as the “Suck Choker”. As the title suggests, it is a device worn on the users neck which replicates the experience of someone’s lips tangent to the skin creating a small oscillating vacuum… but from many angles all at once! This all means I’ve been particularly obsessed with suction… and how to create the sensation of being sucked on! weeeeee! This particular device has presented three separate design questions to address: how it is driven: the manner in which suction is creation suction cups: the surface body making contact with the skin sensing: what will this augment be acting in response to? Over the past month I’ve bounced around between…

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Persistence of Vision Pasties

April 10, 2019spetku0 Comments

Propeller Pasties v.1 (July 2018 : a recap) Sometime early last summer, I decided to build the augment for the top half of my body: a device which addressed my breasts and nipples! I generally had an idea of how this device would manifest, and I knew from the start that it most certainly had to involve propellers…….. of course. Very early during the process of brainstorming, I knew I wanted to create something which somehow measured nipple diameter as its form of input, because really, what else is there to sense from a nipple? I was researching different sensors which might accurately do the trick, when my partner Mark unearthed some boards he had made from the bowels of the lab and suggested I play with them a bit. Short-Range IR Distance Sensors. I honestly wasn’t expecting them to work as well as they did. I designed a pastie…

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Introducing! Ox Milk Ranch

January 10, 2019spetku0 Comments

In the winter, I enjoy playing what I call “nesting games” After a long year of nonstop work on many projects at once, I check out from adult life and invest all of my time into a video game the likes of Minecraft, Terraria, or Star Bound. These games fulfill a need that my human-animal programming calls for that modern life has ceased to provide: the sensation of hunting, securing shelter, and protecting oneself from zombies. (not to say that isn’t what we’re achieve with our apartments and jobs as we do. It just doesn’t flip my bits in quite the same way) This particular winter, I tried to guide those strong desires into not only playing a game, but attempting to make one as well. In addition to buying Stardew Valley, the ultimate farming and gathering experience, I’ve been learning the game engine, Unity so that I can create…

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“POPgirl” Enclosure Build

October 20, 2018spetku0 Comments

I made a status indicator that notifies me of my body’s relative state of arousal! To help me visualize what’s going on with the myriad of wearables I have set out to don at once, I’ve created an arm-mounted screen display that will tell me what I need to know at a glance. The development of this little treat was of course a matter of hardware design and software development, so I’m breaking the build log into two parts. This first edition will cover the physical components, like the electronics, the enclosure for the electronics, and any other bells and whistles I needed to create to make it do. BILL OF MATERIALS Electronics stuff: 5″ Raspberry Pi Compatable Touch Screen RaspberryPi Zero 5V, 5A Step-Down Voltage Regulator Logic Level Converter Bi-Directional Module 5V to 3.3V Round Push Buttons 1′ HDMI cable Perf Board Stranded Wire HARDWARE SIZES: 40mm M3 screws…

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Anthropomorph-EYES Goggle Adaptor

August 5, 2018spetku0 Comments

Earlier this year I created a circuit board called the “anthropomorphEYES“! It’s a 12-segment display of LEDs that I’ve provided a special 3D printable lens for that once added to the front of the board, allows them to appear more expressive. The idea is that you can add this set of boards to any of your favorite household appliances and elevate them from thing, to friend! The .stl files for the lens is available on my GitHub, along with the eye code sketch. I’ve written a blog post all about how you can edit my code to create your own custom expressions, and animate them into more complex displays of emotionality! I’ve made these because I personally believe it’s an important human quality that we share our empathy with the inanimate objects that fill our lives! Over the summer I’ve take the design of the lens a step further and…

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THE HOT SPOT: Creating gap where there’s heat

August 2, 2018spetku0 Comments

THE HOT SPOT As the name suggests, this augment involves heat… and a spot… If you’re familiar with the other modules part of this project, then you know the drill. This device senses something from the part of the body it is designed for, and then utilizes that part of the body to indicate that which is sensed. I get extra credit if I can create a feedback loop with a totally unintentional byproduct of pleasurable stimulation… So here we go! Challenge: THIGHS SENSING INPUT: Body temperature… specifically the atmosphere between my thighs; a place very likely to exhibit temperature fluctuations for a number of reasons. INDICATING OUTPUT: an elevation in body temperature beyond a designated threshold will activate a geared motor or winch mounted on either hip. The winch will tug on a kevlar tendon stitched through the length of a suction-cup-like tentacle whose cups adhere to the surface…

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Propellor Pasties Make Spinnie Nips

July 6, 2018spetku0 Comments

Most of the areas of the body listed on the PULSE board are open and waiting to receive something to control: arms, thighs, head, buns, nips, and neck! Each comes with its own challenges and list of potential ideas. After much thought, I decided to direct my attention to the nipples for my next project… The first nipple augment is called the “Propellor Pasties”! As its name suggests, it senses fluctuations in the size of the wearer’s nipple using IR distance sensors and then indicates the fluctuation by spinning a geared propellor mounted to the other breast. SENSING FROM THE NIP Initially, the brainstorming session for this build took place in the kitty pool with an electronics engineer, a machinist, and plenty of beer to go around. As these *meditations* go, we first discuss the WHAT, and then mulled over the HOW. What am I sensing from the nipple, and…

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THE WHISPERING CROTCH BOX

July 1, 2018spetku0 Comments

I was laying in bed one morning when I thought to myself, “I could really use a pussy whisperer right now.” Soon after, the words dissolved from abstract meaning into disassociated literal imagery: “pussy. whisperer.” -I leaped out of bed and ran into the lab to fetch a pair of calipers. I measured my pelvic bone, opened a fresh document in CAD and started modeling an actual box that ergonomically fit between my legs. It would house a speaker aimed directly at my lady parts… and do precisely that, the pussy whispering. It came to be known in the days to come as the BEAT BOX! -and would become the first wearable I’d develop as part of the SHEBON project! 🙂 The augment reads the wearer’s heart rate and then outputs an audible whisper into the pelvic bone at a volume relating to their beats per minute (BPM). The byproduct…

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THE FUNCTION OF THE PULSE MODULE

June 26, 2018spetku0 Comments

I describe the “PULSE PACK” as being the platform that runs the SHE BON project. It connects everything with data and power, yada, yada…. but what is its function? Tell me more about this brain, right? When I first started daydreaming about the cortex of the whole project, it was a matter of aesthetic rather than function. I saw a mass of cables and wires branching out like veins from the upper back of a human… making the body look like a fruit waiting to be picked from a branch of some sort. I wanted to see lines spilling out from one location; the visual affirmation that everything has a definite point of origin. There were a few influences in my life that had my head in a particular place that month. One was a strange jaunt to a “fetish ball” I attended with a friend, and the other was…