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A Twitter-savy couple has two cats and a problem.
They live indoors and outdoors. Some other cats from the neighborhood learned that the food my wife buys is better than what they get from the owners, so regularly we find other cats in our garage feasting on the food.
I'm a programmer and I like to build stuff... so I had to build something to solve the problem.
Meet the Tweeting Cat door.
Each cat has a small RFID tag on the collar. When a cat is in the close proximity of the door, a small RFID reader reads the tag and if the cat is authorized, a servo will unlock the cat door. The RFID reader and the servo controller are connected to an old laptop. The software on the laptop is written in Delphi and for each "cat door event" is sending a Twitter message and a picture to twitter.com.
http://twitter.com/GusAndPenny
They live indoors and outdoors. Some other cats from the neighborhood learned that the food my wife buys is better than what they get from the owners, so regularly we find other cats in our garage feasting on the food.
I'm a programmer and I like to build stuff... so I had to build something to solve the problem.
Meet the Tweeting Cat door.
Each cat has a small RFID tag on the collar. When a cat is in the close proximity of the door, a small RFID reader reads the tag and if the cat is authorized, a servo will unlock the cat door. The RFID reader and the servo controller are connected to an old laptop. The software on the laptop is written in Delphi and for each "cat door event" is sending a Twitter message and a picture to twitter.com.
http://twitter.com/GusAndPenny
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