BTW, the use of these various connectors by hismith means you can get cursed adapters like this, which are XLR on one end and quick air connector on the other end.

because naturally you might need to convert between compressed air and balanced stereo
I also discovered Hismith has an official youtube channel, where they've uploaded a bunch of short videos of their connectors latching and unlatching.
Like so:
can I sue this site for stealing my band name?
I play bass for Dixon Hex and the Octagonal Nipples!
I was looking at patents and now I'm scared
This is the patent for Hismith's sex machine design, btw:

https://patents.google.com/patent/USD824036S1/en
it doesn't include the attachment, which is the part I was interested in
hey foone, what's your cyberpunk name?
The thing I'm looking for is this, because as someone on discord pointed out, there's no way they custom designed and manufactured this. They're reusing some connector from something else.
And I'm trying to figure out what.
it definitely appears to be very similar to a pneumatic quick-release coupler, but after looking through a lot of aliexpress I think it might be a custom-made variant of them. the octagonal end piece and the lack of a hole is very distinctive and unusual.
They may have had some custom connectors made to make it harder for their products to be cloned, and to prevent compatible unlicensed, uh, "add-ons"
can't wait to see the first sex machine with DRM that won't accept unlicensed dildos, you have to get the ones from the manufacturer
it's too bad they didn't go for the 4-pin XLR, they could have just run USB over it, with a simple microcontroller inside each attachment...
hey, I just found something similar! It's hexagonal, but similar enough that I'm sure it's related.
And guess what it is? A quick-release mic stand!
Clearly the designer of this machine has a musical background...
from some angles you can see "You Tian" on the connectors, and there's a maker of pneumatic connectors that look very similar.
so yeah. custom variants of existing cables.
and by cables I of course mean connectors.
BTW, if you want to scary audio production friends, send them this picture, which I'm intentionally breaking the link for (it's a vibrator/dildo with an XLR plug sticking out the back)

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I got one of the weird connectors. it's... weird.
The XLR connector just unscrews, because this is just a standard XLR connector that they've repackaged, it's not some special-made thing.
And the other end unscrews too
And that weird octagonal connector is a single piece with a screw hole on the other end.
and I'll post dimensions when I finally figure out where my calipers went
Also the box it came in had this sexy cat man on it.
I don't know why.
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