Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Video: ultrasonic water level dish pings owner when kitty needs a drink

by Darren Murph, posted Mar 31st 2009 at 9:07AM


Given that most cats aren't really the talkative type, we can definitely understand scoopmycatbox's desire to rig up a water dish (vid's after the break) that does the yapping for his dearest kitty. Put as simply as possible, the ultrasonic water level cat dish combines an Arduino, Parallax range finder, some scrap wood and a good deal of wires in order to measure when the water bowl needs to be refilled. He's still working to get the contraption to send him a Tweet when the level gets below a certain point, and we can only assume that part II will see an automatic refilling toolhooked in to said alerting system. And you thought pets had it good before the advent of technology...

[Via MAKE]


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