However much I profess to be a hardcore, no-nonsense engineer, I've always had a soft spot for sociology and anthropology. Hell, I almost double majored in one along with CS in college. I get absolutely fascinated by how people communicate with each other, how they form groups, so on and so forth. Needless to say, watching the SeXBox meme spread has blown a good portion of the last 4 days for me. I get absolutely mesmerized with watching who is visiting from where, then tracing where they came from. Pages like [Bloglines][1], [Technorati][2], and [Del.icio.us][3] make feeding my addiction a hell of a lot easier.

So, in what will hopefully be the last metapost about this damn thing before we get back to the real stuff, I'd like to go over what I found in my adventures across my referrer list.

• One of the most popular reactions was some form of "I don't know which is scarier, the fact this exists or the fact the guy did it without a girl around to use it on". Time to dispell this one. The reason there wasn't a girl around is 'cause my fiancee was out of town on business. She's back now, and is the owner of the GIRLS HANDS featured in the Playstation version of the mod. So I'm not just some lonely perv sitting in a basement. I'm on the first floor, actually. This brings me to my next point...

• A good portion of straight guys on the net are whiney little bitches with no imagination. There were SO MANY posts about "Why'd he make this for a girl? I wish there was a guy version.". For christ motherfucking sake, it's not like I set the electricity coming out of those wires to vagina-only polarity. You can hook those wires to ANYTHING, including guy toys, your nuts, your toaster, or all three at once if you're into that sort of thing. Not to mention, it wouldn't kill you to use a vibrator. Contrary to popular belief, it doesn't make you gay, either. I know Mr. Prostate lives in a dark, smelly cave, but he likes visitors, and repays the favor very well. [Take it like a fucking man, already.][4] A whole world of bi and gay men do, and do you hear THEM complaining?

• People really, really don't expect you to come into their blog and comment when they've linked to you. Most are really receptive, and I've met a lot of REALLY cool people doing this thanks to this article. But a few are freaked out, some pretty badly. On the internet, there ain't no privacy, the front door is always open, and I really, really like to scribble on walls.

• I was very interested in how many people thought this was a novel idea. I mean, I realize that's what generated the hits, but I just found it amazing what soldering a wire to two pads and badly taping up a couple of batteries could do. I've been kicking around the Video Game Dildo idea for at least 6 years ([I posted about it in my LJ a couple of years ago][5]. That's how I funded the buying of this domain). Unfortunatly, I'm miraculously lazy, not to mention, up until the last couple of years, completely lacking in any hardware knowledge. It was a fun idea to joke about on IRC, but I figured someone would beat me to it. They never did. I felt like a pretty big dumbass when I cracked open the PS1 controller and learned the sad fact that this project had been waiting to happen since 1995 (and probably well before that). Thank god I got to it first, before this information fell into the WRONG HANDS (DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNN).

• I think what got to me most can be summed up in the thread that happened on [Xbox-Scene][6], the biggest Xbox modding/homebrew site on the net. [Here's the thread about the SeXBox project from there][7], though it is now locked and in the Garbage Dump forum. I honestly tried to make the article as gender and sexuality neutral as possible, while still packing it as chock full of hilarity. Even so, there seems to be a large number of people who found the article offensive to women.

Every single one of these people had a penis.

[GameGirlAdvance][8], [GameGal][9], and a ton of other female gamer sites and forums seemed to have no problem with it. Hell, I got emails from quite a few females that thought it a really funny article. I also found a few who were slightly offended, but it was at the material itself, not my presentation. (I have no problem with that, I'll admit, this site isn't for everyone. It's got dildoes everywhere. Not everyone likes dildoes everywhere. It's really an acquired taste.)

So remember, obliviously misogynist internet fuckwads, that "WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDRE.... I MEAN, GIRLS!!!" argument is an absolute crock of shit, and it's why you seem to repel women wherever you go. Women play games, women like sex, and believe it or not, they've been able to vote for a couple of years, too. They don't need your defense, they can come kick me in the nuts themselves. Be assured, if they feel the need to, they will.

The links are calming down now, things are going back to quietness, which means I've gotta cook up something else now. I went on a bit of a buying spree tonight that I'll be reporting on tomorrow. Until then, have fun breaking consoles. ;)

[1]: http://www.bloglines.com [2]: http://www.technorati.com [3]: http://del.icio.us [4]: http://www.take-it-like-a-man.com/ [5]: http://www.livejournal.com/users/qdot/39563.html [6]: http://www.xbox-scene.com [7]: http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=362609 [8]: http://www.gamegirladvance.com [9]: http://www.gamegal.com

SeXBox - PS1/2 Version

Pictures thanks to subgirl

Click here for XBox Version

For everyone that wanted to know what vibe that is in the picture, click here for the post with all the information.

For every XBox out there, there are roughly 349650358903 PS2's. It's a much shittier platform to develop for, but Sony are the masters of marketing, and they've been in the game much, much longer. So just consider us the fat, pimply kid following the popular kid.

Porting the SeXBox project to the PS2 was simple, mainly because it looks like the controllers use the exact same motor setup (I highly doubt there's a ton of competition in the small vibration motor field). I've changed the pictures and some of the text in order to account for the difference in controller hardware, but the method is pretty much the same.

So, without further ado...

What you'll need

PS2 controller Soldering Iron Dremel or some sort of small drill/grinder Wire A vibrator However many AA batteries the vibrator takes Electrical tape

Mod Difficulty: Good god, this is so stupidly easily.

Intro

Here at /8====>, we've already combined two things essential to live - strip clubs and food. Now it's time to put sex and video games together in a pair we like to call The SeXBox. The second you start playing with this while on any game with the PS2 network, it turns into teledildonics!

This mod didn't take any engineering. There's nothing new or amazing that we're doing with this, hell, we really didn't even think of the method first. However, we DID involve sex, so we win!

Ok, so we come in 2nd to Girl Game Advance's use of the Rez Trancevibrator. But it's a close second! Except for the fact that they have a picture of like, a REAL girl, and we're stuck with pictures of dildos, multimeters, and MAN HANDS (at least, we were in the XBox version. LOOK! GIRL HANDS!).

Basically, what you're going to be doing is hijacking the 5VDC line that goes to the large vibration motor on the right-hand side of your PS2 controller (this is assuming your PS2 controller is facing up). Using this line, you can do a ton of stuff that involves needing power that's triggered by a game. Here's a couple of examples:

(A list of mods would usually go here. However, I'm not aware of any PS2 controller mods. If someone has some that follow this setup, please email me.)

Like I said, this isn't original. Even so, no one has hooked it up to a sex toy... UNTIL NOW.

So right now, you're probably saying to yourself "qDot, you said the motor runs off a 5 VDC line? My vibrator only takes 1 or 2 AA batteries! Isn't that too much power?"

Yes, yes it is. In a later tutorial (when I actually have the parts, and yes, I realize I'm just missing resistors, but Radio Shack is a whole block away and I've got a new toy to play with!), we'll be showing how to do a current reduction so that you don't burn out the motors in your toys quite so quickly. However, for now, this is more of a proof of concept deal. We won't stop you from setting this up, but be warned, you're shipping a ton of current to a motor that probably wasn't made for it, so expect quicker burnout.

Also, note that this is going to void the warrenty on everything you work on. I know how much fun returning used sex toys is, but you won't be able to do it after this, since you're running it off a non-standard power supply.

Finally, we take no responsibility for your stupid ass fucking up and/or dying. You're hooking homemade electronics to something that's gonna be near your no-no zone. The stupidity in this is obvious. So don't come to us if you hurt yourself, we hate the smell of singed pubes.

Also, don't just pick any toy. This is the future. This is special. I went to The Dildo Store and bought this toy specifically for this tutorial. Why? What made it call out to me from the shelves?

It HAS LEDs IN IT! Really! It has little Red and Green LEDs that light up when you turn it on! Blinky blinky! IT'S A RAVE IN A DILDO! uNF

Er.... so... yeah....

With that being said, ON TO THE TUTORIAL!

Putting it together

This is the back of a PS1 controller. PS2 controllers have 1 less screw.

First off, let's take part the PS2 Controller. Remove the 6-7 screws in the back, and remove the back plate. The circuit board is held in by one more screw, so don't worry about losing anything out of the front. We shouldn't really need to take the board out.

Unlike the XBox, the vibration motors are soldered directly onto the board. There's a couple of different routes we can take here. Best choice is to get the right motor out, wick up or suck out the old solder using desoldering wick or a solder sucker, respectively, and replace the pads with new solder. The next best solution is to pull the motor wires out of the current pads, and try to solder your wires in. Finally, if you don't mind possibly blowing whatever is powering the vibration motors in the controller (and possibly breaking your PS2), you can just put your wires in parallel with the motor wires.

PS1 Dual Shock Controller Pads

PS2 Controller Pads

This is a really easy 2 point soldering job. Simply solder two wires onto the pads for the large vibration motor. Make SURE to mark which wire is which (positive/negative wise). Polarity issues are the last thing you want to deal with, as they tend to produce lots of magic smoke.

Since there arn't really any holes in a PS2 controller, you're gonna have to grind out a small hole in the side of your controller in order to make a hole for the wire to pass thru. Seeing I don't really feel like fucking up my PS controllers, I'm not including any pictures. This step is pretty self explanitory anyways.

Now there's the question of whether or not you want to hook up the vibration motor again or not. If you do, the two motors will be connected in parallel. If you've got a VERY low power thing that you're hooking up on the other end, this is probably ok. However, put anything requiring decent amount pf power and you'll probably bake something. If you don't hook the vibration motor line back up, the tap line will get the full current.

The other solution is to unsolder the vibration motor connector completely, and hook the motors in series. Each motor will get 2.5v, which means you'll be fine for your vibrator, but the vibration motor might be a little slow (Though it does still run at 2.5V @ 100-200mA).

Update (Thanks to Oscar G): A good idea for any of these setups would be to wire a 200-300mA fuse in front of the power tap. Sure, there's gonna be plastic and whatever else between you and the direct voltage, but things tend to get a little... wet and messy down there, and if the current jumps, you don't want something that looks like the head of an electrified cartoon character in your crotch.

Put the controller back together, and you're done installing the power tap. Easy, wasn't it?

To get this working in your vibrator, you're going to need to get the exposed wires on the outside connected to the battery leads somehow. I have a rather ghetto method for doing this.

I'm going to assume you've got a vibrator that takes 2 AA batteries, side by side, in a series connection. Get your electrical tape, and use a single, non-overlapping strip to tape the batteries together side by side (If the tape overlaps, it might make the width of the two-battery-package too large to actually fit in the vibe.). Then tape the batteries lengthwise, so that all the contacts are covered by the electrical tape. Finally, tape the correct ends of your exposed wire over the contacts. You've now created a make-shift battery that will run off the tapped power from the controller.

UPDATE (Thanks to R B for this): FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MAKE SURE YOU COMPLETELY COVER THE BATTERY CONTACTS WITH TAPE. Even better, don't use batteries at all. Find something battery shaped that will work. I know said to do it above, but it's absolutely, ridiculously important to make sure that NO part of the battery ends are exposed through the tape. If a wire running current comes in contact with the exposed battery, you run the risk of have a battery explode, which is definitely not something anyone should ever have to deal with (just ask any below average EE student for their experience).

Here's what the whole package looks like.

This is what the top looks like. Note the ghetto as shit job I did on aligning the wires. That's pure fuckin' American laziness at work right there. Not like you people have anything to say about it, I don't see any of YOU spending your free time hooking dildos up to power sockets, eh?

This idea can be used for one battery systems, too. Just wrap the contacts in electrical tape, then tape the exposed wires on the corresponding ends of the battery. There's a question of the width of battery+wire not working, and since it's going to be a motor rated near 1.5v it's gonna burn out really quick, but it's doable.

Put the battery pack in whatever you planned on putting it in, boot up your favorite game, and go into the options menu to test the vibration function. Assuming you hooked up everything correctly, you should now have a force feedback sex toy!

Time for our first test of the vibrator (with no one attached to the other end, unfortunatly. We really gotta work on the whole porn aspect of this site). In dedication to JG Ballard (and to a lesser extend, David Cronenberg), I decided to use Burnout 3 in Crash mode. There's nothing quite as satisfying as watching a dildo run due to the fact that you just crashed your car into a crowded intersection. Sure enough, the second I hit another car, the vibe took off across the table. It was truly a beautiful sight, and one I'll hopefully have a movie of here pretty soon.

The Future

• Make the wire longer (yeah, 8 inches of wire is most definitely not enough), and put on some flavor of connector.
• Current regulation so that things don't burn out so quick. This is just a matter of me not being so damn lazy.
• I need to try this on a Gamecube controllers. I have some, it's just a matter of opening them up (or else just finding a picture of them) and finding the lines. Once I do this, I'll post pictures. I'm sure the instructions will be almost exactly the same.

PS1/2 Version of the SeXBox Mod

We've gotten enough pokes, complaints and whines about Playstation compability, just because it happens to be the most popular console on the planet at the moment. Seeing we like hits, we decided it be in our best interest to add a PS1/2 version of the ever popular SeXBox mod. It's pretty much the same as the XBox version, but there are enough differences that I ended up rewriting some of the tutorial. Enjoy!

Ok, so I've seen a couple of places completely rip off the forum article and repost the pictures and a VERY condensed version of my Xbox Controller article.

I'm not out to be a bitch about copyright. Yes, I like getting the hits, and yes, I did put the work into this page. But what people don't seem to realize is that THIS SHIT IS DANGEROUS. Putting any type of current anywhere on your body without proper guidance and knowing what you're doing could easily kill you.

That's why I put warnings in my articles.

That's why there's mentions of fuses and "don't blame us".

I know I have a funny writing style, and I know I do this in a tongue in cheek manner, but the LAST thing I want to see is anyone getting hurt. This is sex, this is supposed to be FUN, not a trip to the emergency room and possible permanent damage.

So please, link all you want. If you REALLY want a copy of the tutorial on your site, email me and we'll talk about it. Otherwise, know that I will use every single power I have (even down to copyright. This shit is NOT creative commons, it is NOT GPL, it is MINE, and for good reason. waits for someone to take this out of context) to have information copied from this site removed from your site. I will NOT have people getting hurt from my projects just because you want the hits.

sigh

Now, back to me being silly.

Ok, I was feeling a little artistic tonight and made a banner and a button.

Here's a standard 468x60 banner.

If you're looking for something a little smaller and less intrusive, I recommend our mini model.

Please [email me][3] if you decide to use one of the banners, and I'll try to reciprocate in one way or another. :)

[3]: mailto:qdot at slashdong()org