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If you like to keep track of what’s going on in your house why not track the in and out activity of your pets. This Tweeting RFID Cat Door does exactly that! Have a look at the Twitter results of Gus and Penny. The other beneficial side effect is that it keeps all of the neighbor cats out of the food you buy for your animals. "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:"
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April 4th, 2009
Ah, but does it tell you if it was a cat that came through the door, or a fawn?? :p
April 5th, 2009
nice idea, but not new: http://www.petporte.com/
April 5th, 2009
I also saw something similar in the pet shop recently. There is one big difference between the one you buy in the store and this one. Will the store bought one twitter you the in and out status of your animals? Nope.
April 5th, 2009
Excellent idea.
April 5th, 2009
Is “I’m pooping now” less than 140 characters?
April 6th, 2009
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April 6th, 2009
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April 7th, 2009
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April 10th, 2009
I built something similar for my cats using an Arduino microcontroller.
I documented how I went about it over at http://www.nermal.org/projects/catalog/
April 10th, 2009
Looks cool Nemal.
April 11th, 2009
[...] projects come up. This RFID Cat Tracking Project called CATaLOG (get it ) is very similar to the RFID cat tracking project that we saw recently. You can now track real time activities of two households of cats on the internet using Twitter! To [...]
July 28th, 2009
super-cool invention! well done!
i also like the way that the hot girl in the pic is touching two pussies at once.