Mooncake, the Official Raspberry Pi Cat, is fed biscuits twice a day by an off-the-shelf cat-feeding robo-hopper that we bought before Raspberry Pi was a reality. (She also gets that horrible-smelling cat food in gravy from a packet, served up by real live humans.) I?ve just found out what to replace the robot with when it breaks.
Mooncake, well-nourished, ?helping? us to dispatch fund-raising stickers
Dave at Twin Cities Maker has made a Pi-powered cat-feeding robot which dispenses two sorts of biscuits, so your fickle pet has a choice of different liver-flavoured kibbles throughout the day.
Dave?s cat feeder, with toaster for scale
It?s much more functional than the one I bought from the pet shop years ago; for a start, it?s wi-fi enabled, so it can be sent instructions remotely. And Dave has plans for making it even whizzier, with sound clips (Cat from Red Dwarf), a camera and a mobile webUI.
Work in progress: this is an Adafruit PermaProto with a couple of solder bridges at the top left. Instructions are on Dave?s blog.
There are full build details, code and a parts list over at Twin Cities Maker. Here?s the feeder in action:
We?re looking forward to see what additions Dave develops for the feeder. Seriously; if you can make this thing self-cleaning, Dave, you can sit back and never have to work again. Cat owners the world over will be banging your door down.
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