It’s been a difficult decision to make.
Rather than continuing to juggle the Bionic Basic and Bionic Deluxe simultaneously, I’m going to focus my attention fully on the Bionic Basic and then hopefully pick up the Bionic Deluxe again once the Bionic Basic is available for purchase.
The issue we keep coming up against with the Bionic Deluxe is power consumption. And of course having an external battery pack, would defeat the purpose of the project entirely. Also, the fact that it’s going to contain electronic and metal components, making it tricky for situations like passing through body scanners at airports, is a fairly unappealing prospect for many.
With the basic, because it’s manually actuated by discreetly opening a valve, we can get away with all silicone and plastic components, but it’s still proving to be quite a daunting process getting the pressures, feel and shape of the elastometers just right for things to look and feel natural.
So I’ll admit that while getting things dialed in, is proving to be quite a challenge, it’s definitely a surmountable one. In any case, the mechanical principles are sound. It’s now just a matter of incremental tweaks to get the balance of balloon pressures and fluid movement juuuuust right.
This is gonna be insane do you have an estimate oh when it would be available to purchase and have it in my hands and if there will be floating testicals and movable skin
Due to Covid pretty much grinding everything to a halt over the last year, the release date has been pushed out to hopefully sometime in 2022 but even that is not a given… In any case yes we are aiming for movable skin and floating testicles. You can find the latest update here https://transthetics.com/changing-tack-on-the-bionic/
Really hope this project comes to life!