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- Diet and weigh your cat
- Cheap
- Easy to print
- Easy to assemble
- Easy to configure
The Meowton project was designed to measure the weight of your pets and automatically feed your pets according to their diets.
Check out the youtube channel of my cats to see a demo
- Each cat has a certain food quota per day. The quota is increased when its feeding time, and decreased whenever the cat is eating.
- We try to get the cat used to a schedule, but if the cat has quota left it can eat whenever it desires.
- The scale will identify the cat by its weight. (No RFID support yet, so the weights of the cats should be in different ranges)
- The cat can keep eating as long as it has quota.
- The food scale measures exactly how much your cat eats and updates the quota.
- It creates nice graphs to track your cats weight.
Start with the base plate and cat scale:
Make sure to align it to the edge of the build plate, so that there is room left for the dispenser and food scale.
Now add the food dispenser and food scale:
Food dispenser build instructions.
Food scale build instructions.
Electronics build instructions.
Install and config instructions
- Can be used to identify pets if their weight is similar.
Still a work in progress: Reading a pet-rfid-chip while they are eating is a bit difficult but should be possible.
This was the best reader i could find: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/134-2K-Long-distance-RFID-AGV-Animal-Tag-Reader-Module-TTL-Interface-ISO11784-85-FDX-B/32833759686.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.27424c4dm3EOa9
Its quite expensive and i still wasnt able to read the chip reliable during eating. Have to do some more reseach and testing.
There are other commercial products that use their own solution and coils. Maybe print and wind our own huge coil that the cat can step through? Or under the scale?
Tips and help are welcome.