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Do-It-Yourself Creative Gadgets for Your Pets

Written by Colleen Sedgwick. Posted in Pet Nanny news, Pet Products.

In a recent and interesting article featured in Popular Science magazine, there was a detailed article about several do-it-yourself gadgets that will help pets care for themselves when you’re away. Many of these gadgets are incredible and unique designs that seem to work by those who created them for their purposes. They use social media, VCR and other electronics to emit the response wanted for the pet. However, as with any product, check with your veterinarian before utilizing any of them.  They are as follows:

  • Water Warden– “Designed by Eloy Salinas to automatically keep the water dish brimming for his dog. It sends a tweet when the reservoir runs dry.” Via makezine.com
  • VCR Cat Feeder– This device uses the programmable timer already built into a VCR to schedule delivery of cat kibbles. Via makezine.com
  • (A) tiny Fish Feeder– This device employs an ATtiny85 or ATtiny45 micro controller, and requires some enclosure-building chops as well as electronics skills. For more information, check out Instructables.com.
  • Twitter-controlled Pet Feeder– “Amanda Ghassaei hacked an off-the-shelf automated feeder to dispense dry pet food in response to a tweeted command. The device utilizes Arduino as the controller, adding an Ethernet shield to receive Twitter data.” Via Instructables.com
  • Frankenfeeder– “This project builds off Amanda Ghassaei’s original design. It utilizes a Raspberry Pi instead of Arduino in order to include additional features, such as a wireless WiFi connection, taking commands via a Gmail account, and “feedback” via camera surveillance of the feeding pooches.” Via http://locgt.blogspot.com/
  • Crittergram Capture Cam– This device snaps a photo each time it senses movement, so that you can see what your pet’s up to when you’re not there. Via Makezine.com

Know of any other cool and innovated technology products that enhance the care for your pet while you’re away? Let us know!

Source: http://www.popsci.com/gallery/6-diy-gadgets-will-care-your-pet-while-youre-away/

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