Meowton food dispenser
The food dispenser can dispense small amounts of food.
Should work with most brands of dry cat food. The size of the food i'm using:
Differences compared to most other printable dispensers out there:
- Easy to print
- Easy to assemble
- Only one simple servo needed
- Does not jam or crush food
- Does not make loud scary noises.
- Reliable
- Hard to cheat with by cat.
- Can run for only 100mS to dispense very small amounts of food.
You can find them in this repo, or on any of these sites:
- https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3362147
- https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/4558-meowton-pet-food-dispenser
- https://makerworld.com/en/models/137020
- Onshape drawing: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/93ee1e60733b0a2f7b8a5d07/w/48fa31c286a1cac4ad3315ec/e/9ef973820fcd2191f34f2d17
You only need one continuous rotation servo, the MG995. Make sure its 360 degrees continuous rotation, and not a normal servo!
Its cheap, works well and is simple to use without any extra driver boards.
Try to find one that says it has metal gears, those are more reliable.
Assembly is pretty easy, just slide/click everything in place:
You need to use one of those plastic levers that comes with the servo. You might need to snip one to make it fit in the rotating part.
Use sandpaper to smooth out any sharp points/edges on the red rotator thingy.
