This sucks ;) - Sneak peek for May

Hi guys,

Guess what. The next update really sucks!

Good news. I think we're getting back to normal, and I am able to bring you an mid-month update and thank you for your continuing support with a sneak peek at what I will be releasing in May.

The popularity of the OSR2 appears to be snowballing, particularly amongst the video scripting community, so it seems to me that it would be most exciting to add some more functionality to it, rather than pursue a new machine with extra movement axes. At least in the short term.

I've been looking at a key component of the OSR2, namely the standard fleshlight case, and thinking about how it might be improved upon. A neat feature has always been that the level of suction can be controlled with the screw-on lid, but I found myself wondering what might be possible if the suction could be actively controlled in real time.

So, may I present to you the T-Valve. It screws on top like a regular cap, but it uses a 9g micro-servo to constantly adjust the air resistance in and out of the case during stroking. It means your T-Code device now has control and the level of suction can change, even from stroke to stroke!

I have already implemented a basic control routine that adds suction only to slow up-strokes without any special input from the driving software. Going forward though, especially as the community moves toward multi-dimensional scripting, I want to explore ways to add this as a controllable parameter to scripts.

I've also got other controllable functions in mind, such as heat, squeezing and vibration, so expect to see more of the 3D printed, insulated, modular case in the future. ;)

Let me know what you think: here or on Discord. Are these sorts of extras interesting to you? Or should I be looking at new machines with more degrees of freedom?

Happy building!