Arduino controlled flashtease

[zone]

Ok, let me know if this is in the wrong subforum...

I've created a small service to control a vibrator over internet. This makes it possible to drag on a slider and control one or two vibrators/bullets/whatever.

My idea is to integrate this with flashtease if possible. It could work like this:

1. The flashtease communicates with the service to get a "hash". For the service to know what ip it should go against.
2. Flashtease start to talk with the service. Turn up/down your bullet/vibrator

The flashtease would basically do calls like http://service.tld?speed=100&hash=yourid or http://service.tld?speed=0&hash=yourid. I don't know who made the flashtease app but it shouldn't be hard to implement.

What I've created:

1. I've taken a simple Arduino (http://www.arduino.cc/) and a motor shield (http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoMotorShieldR3). This is driven with a 9V battery (could be up to 12V as well via either power cable or battery). The motor out is connected to my bullet instead of batteries. By doing this I get a bullet that can get anything from 0 to 12V and will of course have a speed based on this.

2. I've written a small Arduino app to controll the power output via serial port.

3. I've written a small web-script to talk to the Arduino over serial port.

All in all what you'd need to create this is:
* Arduino + motor shield ($50)
* some wire ($1).
* A vibrator of some sort that can be connected to the setup.
* You'd also need ruby on your computer (there's installs for all OS).

Is this something that anyone would be interested in? The chat have showen interest but I haven't really told them what's needed for it to work.

The people creating flashtease doesn't happen to be on the forum? And could say if my idea is doable on their side?

[Nezhul]

The new EOS system is on the way, so it MIGHT be added. But as I know the developer is very cautious to make it as secure as possible, and I doubt he'll add some advanced hardware interaction. Still, never hurts to ask. I believe it should have gone to suggestions forum though.

[curiousSK]

i'm wondering if you could set it up to work off of your laptop/pc's sound [similar to this: http://www.lovehoney.co.uk/product.cfm?p=9693]. that way you could have it work off of usual flash-teases that use a metronome, this could be a more simple fix, AND it might encourage more people to use the metronome idea in flash teases!

what do you think?