When a company with a name as big as Fleshlight attached their brand to a computerized sex toy, you damn well better believe I'll be there to get my hands in it.

I mean, I know I'm supposed to get other body parts in it, but let's be real here.

I've been working for the past few days on reverse engineering the new Fleshlight/Kiiroo crossover toy, the Launch. For those that just want the goodies right now, the documentation is coming together at https://metafetish.github.io/raunch-docs, with the repo at https://github.com/metafetish/raunch-docs.

It's a fairly simple toy, just made to fit a fleshlight case, and move it up and down. The protocol allows setting absolute position along the thrusting axis, and the speed to get there. That's about it. There are 7 capacative touch buttons on the device, though due to the smoothness of the face design, it's actually hard to know when/if you're hitting them.

As usual, I'll be cranking out libraries as fast as I can for the device. If you're interested in controlling it out omfg right now and have either mac or linux available, there's a WebBluetooth demo that will work with Chrome 56+. You can set the position to move to, and the speed at which to move, then hit "send" to actually send the command.

I've done a full teardown of the device, which I'll be making a video of for our ALL NEW YOUTUBE SERIES soon. We're also working on documenting the firmware (PIC24FJ64 processor), and contemplating writing our own because why not.

Note: This post originally appeared on buttplug.io.

When writing software for hobby projects, there's a tendency to go "Oh, I want to learn [thing]" and add that to the stack of things required to build the project. So far, buttplug has been no exception.

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It's been a while since I've talked about what we're doing on the reverse engineering side of things. Short answer is, a LOT! Otherwise I wouldn't be asking for money.

Almost all of the reverse engineering happening now is in preparation for getting v0.1 of Buttplug out the door. What that release will actually look like is anyone's guess, but the more toys we have documented and reversed, the better. I'll usually be covering reverse engineering and software development work over on the Buttplug.io blog and leaving this blog for featuring news, business, and other people's projects (with buttplug update posts every so often), but I'm taking this opportunity to update both places since I haven't written anything about my own work in a while.

First off, all of our documentation and code repos are still at

http://github.com/metafetish

I'm also trying to keep hardware information up-to-date and available on the buttplug.io website. Keep an eye on the hardware menu, and I'll probably add a "Recently Updated" section to the front of the site soon.

Anyways, onto the libraries!

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Metafetish now has a patreon campaign!

Or, well, more specifically, I (qDot) do. I'd like to get more sex toys to reverse engineer, but that's becoming a pretty spendy endeavor these days. Most toys start at $150, and specialty stuff like the ET-312 can be upwards of $600. I've set up a patreon campaign so that I can accept donations and "engage directly with motivated participants", or so the marketing department tells me to say.

There are multiple reward tiers, including previews of Metafetish posts, Q&A with me, old-timey handwritten letters, and even a Metafetish VIP level that can get you all sorts of special perks.

I'm going to try to make efforts to post more here about the reverse engineering and documentation I've been doing recently, but if you can't wait, all of the code, documentation, and everything else are always on github at

https://www.github.com/metafetish

Go on then. Gimme money. I'm waiting. We're already up to 7 patreons and $16 a month, which is a great start!

Due to me being busy with life, things have been quiet on Metafetish lately. That doesn't mean nothing is happening, though. There's still lots of work in progress on ET-312 reverse engineering, buttplug.io, and other projects. I just don't have a lot of time to write about it.

If you'd like to keep up with what's happening with Metafetish projects, here's some places to look:

• Metafetish Github Org - All of the code for Metafetish projects still lands here, so this is a good place to get updates about what's actively being worked on.
• Metafetish Slack - We now have a slack instance! It's pretty development/engineering focused, and is where most of the serious discussion for work on the ET-312, buttplug, etc take place. If you'd like an invite, send mail to tips at metafetish dot com and specify the email you'd like the invite sent to. Metafetish IRC mirrors the Slack instance.

Metafetish isn't the only source for sex tech info these days! There's now lots of good sex tech resources to check out:

• InternetOfDon.gs - Security auditing of sex toys and apps
• Unzipped Media - Blogs and podcasts on sex tech legal and patent issues
• Body Interaction - DIY and 3D printing work for sex tech
• nsfwdiy - DIY sex tech
• SexToyDB - DIY sex tech projects and news
• Future of Sex - General sex tech news
• Sex Tech Guide - General sex tech news

Expect more Metafetish posts in the near future hopefully! You can also expect mirrored content from the buttplug.io development blog as things are posted there.