Automatic Cricket Dispenser - Page 4

Zelda · #31 09-15-2008, 09:43 AM

LOL, this has been a good laugh this morning.
Anyhow, are we Americans getting so lazy that we have to automate everything? Pretty soon we aren't going to want to walk to the toilet! We're going to make a automated toilet to come to us. WTH!

Tiamat · #32 09-15-2008, 10:30 AM

Insteat of going for light sensor detection, why don't you go with atomic scaling? Go by weight insteat of light detection. So lets say you put 100 crickets in the machine, equivalent to 100g. That would be 1g per crickets. So you open the door betwen the enclosure and feeding sas, wait until the computer detect 10g(assuming you want around 10 crickets to be released), then close the door to the enclosure and opens the door to the terrarium.

Of course you might end up giving 1-2 crickets more or less, but it would be fool proof compare to light detection.

The geneticaly modified gnome is another promising solution! You need to look into it!

froggsong · #33 09-15-2008, 02:35 PM

hmmm, thats a good idea tiamat...

Tiamat · #34 09-15-2008, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by froggsong

hmmm, thats a good idea tiamat...

the geneticaly modified gnome is not my idear

froggsong · #35 09-15-2008, 10:49 PM

I meant weighing the crickets, silly thing!

strange_screams · #36 09-15-2008, 11:41 PM

The original inspiration was to be able to build a self contained habitat with automatic misters and food dispensers that you could set up for educational purposes. That way you could leave it somewhere and come by once a week while its on display to refill the crickets or whatnot. The idea being to show beginner animal people the possibilities that you can create with a pet stores supplies or hardware supplies.

Tiamat · #37 09-15-2008, 11:55 PM

also called a 'gadget'

Boozled · #38 09-16-2008, 09:11 PM

I thought the original idea was so that someone would be able to leave town for a vacation or whatever and not have to worry about having a neighbor feed our precious pets.

If someone ever does complete it, I want a copy of the schematic!! Maybe I can pull my Navy skills out of the attic and do something really cool for once.

Green Ghost · #39 09-19-2008, 01:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Zelda

LOL, this has been a good laugh this morning.
Anyhow, are we Americans getting so lazy that we have to automate everything? Pretty soon we aren't going to want to walk to the toilet! We're going to make a automated toilet to come to us. WTH!

Yeah they already have it in Japan - it's called a washlet.

MtuPup · #40 09-19-2008, 01:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Tiamat

also called a 'gadget'

or a widget