How to make a home made vibrater

ICYMI, refurbished Airstreams are all the rage. You can book one for the night on Airbnb. You can belly up to one for tastings of Central Coast rosé. And now you can hop aboard for an even wilder ride.

This month, San Francisco–based sex toy company Crave is rolling out its Build-a-Vibe workshop on wheels, inside a 1961 Airstream painted a sassy shade of orange.

Part showroom, part design studio and mini factory, the sexed up trailer is taking the brand's popular DIY classes, in which women get the chance to customize their own toys, to cities across the country in a tour entirely funded through crowdsourcing on Indiegogo. The mobile Crave Design Factory made a recent stop at SXSW in Austin, TX; later this month, she'll park at The Dinah, the annual lesbian fest in Palm Springs.

Founded by industrial designer Ti Chang and entrepreneur Michael Topolovac, Crave is well known for the subtlety and elegance of its modern designs—the award-winning Vesper is a vibrator-no-it's-a-necklace!—but is also unafraid to stir up blunt conversation about sex and relationships in public (we all loved their recent portrait series at Folsom Street Fair). So since social networks prevent companies like Crave from posting vibrators to their feeds, the team is hitting the road for an IRL social campaign.

"With the Build-a-Vibe tour. we would like to encourage women to explore their sexuality, enjoy it, and not be ashamed of using a vibrator," says Chang, who's personally embarking on the trip, along with her dog Mac Jacobs, and will be on hand to educate her guests on the history of female sex toys. "Participants will receive a kit with all different parts of the sex toy. Then our technicians will walk them through the complete and final creation of the vibrator."

And the Airstream is fully equipped for the mission. A neon sign emblazoned with the words Own Your Pleasure announces the mobile design space, which gleams with glossy white paint and retail-style shelving to show off the company's various gadgets. On the tour, participants in the workshop ($99/person) will get to customize their own special edition Duet Pro vibrators, launched just for the occasion.

Have a nice ride! // lovecrave.com, indiegogo.com/projects

No, not that kind of vibrator.

My sandblasting cabinet has an air powered vibratory screen as part of the reclaimer. I need to replace it.

The whole cabinet was in pretty rough shape when I got it and turned out to be missing many pieces (after purchasing, I found a tag that read: "this unit reserved for welding and brazing only", suggesting it was being used as an inert atmosphere for welding instead of as a sandblaster!). I've managed to replace nearly all the missing components but the vibrator that bolts to the screen had destroyed itself and the air had been disconnected.

I believe this was the original vibrator but most of the markings have long since been worn away:
https://www.amazon.com/BBS-130-Pneum...606097&sr=8-12

Apart from the cost of off-the-shelf vibrators, I'm concerned about the air consumption. My compressor is already borderline too small to run the blast gun. I don't really want to "sacrifice" another 5-6 CFM running the vibrator. So I thought an electric vibrator was in order.

Unfortunately, all the off-the-shelf electric ones are either way too big or ... erm ... not meant for industrial applications. So the questions for the folks here:

1) Do you have a source for reasonably priced *industrial* vibrators that could be easily adapted to take the place of the above vibrator?

OR

2) Do you have any experience making your own small vibrators? What do you suggest for the electric motor? I'm thinking I could just get a small DC motor and mount a weight to it. But it has to be a big enough motor and big enough weight to provide the necessary vibrations. Haven't quite figured that part out.

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For your postprandial pleasure I present the an open-source vibrator that you (or your partner) can play like a theremin. The story of how it came to be is pretty amazing and involves FCC chip lookups, bit-tracing, and lots of assembly code. In short, it’s an amazing effort in DIY hardware hacking that serves the dual purpose of education and giving pleasure.

Built by Beth Scott and based on an off-the-shelf vibrator model called the Lyla, the device uses an Arduino board and sonic transducers to create an interactive, invisible cone of sound that you can move your hand through in order to control the vibrator. Writes Scott:

In fact, it does start to feel like there’s a palpable object in space above the remote’s sensors. Move your body close to it, and it reacts. Press into it lightly, or tease the edges. Flick your hand through it, or make graceful waves back and forth. You can use your whole body to touch it, almost like a big fuzzy vibrating cone floating in air.

Scott has included the plans she used to build the device as well as the 3D models for the case and battery holder. She used the aptly-named Anker battery case and programmed the firmware to interact with various body parts.

“There could be a lot more to electronic sex toys than just a battery and a motor. I want the future to be full of toys that know how to play,” wrote Scott. Amen.

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