John,
I did hear back from the designer, who said more details will be published in 2017.
The original protope used six motors. You can see them inside the watch band like device.
The actuators firing pattern is shown in this screen shot.
Pattern is 2000ms (2 seconds). Each state is for 100mS. Simple job for a micro. I was looking at using two "N" sized batteries (shorter than AAA) and 3D printing a housing with battery, microprocessor, and the six motors embedded into the band.
Haven't had any free time to work on this the past few weeks.
1 1 1 0 0 1 State One 0x25
0 1 0 0 1 0 State Two 0x12
0 0 1 0 0 1 State Three 0x05
1 1 1 0 0 1 State Four 0x35
0 0 0 1 1 1 State Five 0x07
1 0 1 0 0 0 State Six 0x24
0 1 1 0 0 0 State Seven 0x14
0 1 0 1 0 1 State Eight 0x15
1 0 0 0 0 0 State Nine 0x20
0 1 1 1 1 1 State Ten 0x1F
1 0 0 1 0 0 State Eleven 0x24
0 0 1 0 0 1 State Twelve 0x09
1 1 0 1 0 0 State Thirteen 0x34
0 0 1 1 1 1 State Fourteen 0x1F
1 0 0 1 0 0 State Fifteen 0x24
0 1 0 0 0 1 State Sixteen 0x11
1 0 1 1 1 1 State Seventeen 0x2F
0 1 0 0 1 0 State Eighteen 0x12
0 0 0 0 0 1 State Nineteen 0x01
1 0 0 0 0 0 State Twenety 0x20