Automatic Cricket Dispenser

[Tiamat]

Originally Posted by Boozled

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.

so you can do what? a nuclear weapon dispenser?

[Green Ghost]

Originally Posted by Tiamat

so you can do what? a nuclear weapon dispenser?

I have an automaic fart dispenser, does that count?

[froggsong]

Originally Posted by Green Ghost

I have an automaic fart dispenser, does that count?

I do too, heh, I call it "husband". rofl

[KCBALLer]

i traded my old one in (my dad) for my new one my wife......i like the weight design though. sounds like it could actually work.

[beckdg]

we could always use that automatic fart dispenser to migrate the crickets. but will it affect the scale leaving our counts off??? more testing needed here!
or is that what killed the crickets in the tube?

but seriously how would you open/ close doors without eventually killing a few crickets? just curious to see if anyone has thought of or even cares.

[beckdg]

Originally Posted by NavyNate06

just don't forget to add the Mr. Fusion. hahahaha this is great. ROFL

nowadays you just need a couple banana peels and a half empty can of mr. pibb.

[beckdg]

honestly i think this idea will require either:
a robotic arm with a mass of checks and balances... optical sensors... real time 3d mapping... a drop tube in/on a scale w/2 trap doors... a timer to set a time to start... a trigger to tell it when to stop w/fail safes (example: numeric algorithm that counts crickets and scale that measures weight, stops the arm, closes top door and opens bottom)...spring loaded pressure sensitive pincers covered in a poly rubber... very difficult w/out the resources/money for a prototype.

or a very simple bug trap rigged up as a breeding pen inside the tank... like a minnow trap w/smaller holes and some gs around it... you could easily learn what you need to do to keep the right flow once the initial design is constructed... they will eventually learn to sneak out 1 @ a time... the trick will be figuring out how many to keep in there to keep the flow going... it will take trial and error just like anything else... but should work... also should buy at least 2 weeks for a vaca b4 you must reduce population again... gut loading can also be done inside!

[froggsong]

lol, way to keep this going!

[KCBALLer]

time and money is what it comes down to.....

[darc]

Hah, I've been wasting all my time and "crazy project" effort on building a MythTV box (open source DVR) ... when I could've been building an automatic cricket dispenser... silly me.

-darc