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A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava

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Re: A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava

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Neat! Not to toot my own horn too much, but I put together a similar project for my cat's exercise wheel. Hackaday featured it a while back: https://hackaday.com/2023/04/02/spy-on-your-cat-to-make-sure... His exercise routine is somewhat variable but he usually goes for a short jog a few dozen times a day. Most often at 5 am, for whatever reason. Since the article I also built and hooked up a treat dispenser for extr…

> Most often at 5 am, for whatever reason. Cats are crepuscular animals. They are "programed" do start at 5 AM, hunt, and go back to sleep until afternoon. Living in homes tweaked them a little, but the 5 AM thing is still strong in a lot of them (mine included). https://www.animalhumanesociety.org/resource/cat-keeping-you...

The site runs like a dog.

Re: A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

An infinite number of hamsters running in an infinite number of hamster wheels could power a datacenter for one day.

An infinite number of data centers even!

A smaller infinity, but still infinite.

Re: A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava

#44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

10k for a hamster will be way more than 10k steps too!

To be fair, root comment only says "mice will run 10k a day" but it isn't 100% clear what that 10K actually refers to, could be steps, could be meters.

My physics teacher always assumed it was potatoes when the SI-unit was missing

Re: A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

An infinite number of hamsters running in an infinite number of hamster wheels could power a datacenter for one day.

Make the data center run ML/AI experiments for how to effectively run a "energy generation hamster farm" and you have a completely grid-and-internet independent energy solution that optimizes itself via hamsters over time.

Reminds me of the universal paperclip thing. AI harvesting matter for more hamsters.

Re: A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava

#46

Neat! Not to toot my own horn too much, but I put together a similar project for my cat's exercise wheel. Hackaday featured it a while back: https://hackaday.com/2023/04/02/spy-on-your-cat-to-make-sure... His exercise routine is somewhat variable but he usually goes for a short jog a few dozen times a day. Most often at 5 am, for whatever reason. Since the article I also built and hooked up a treat dispenser for extr…

Which cat wheel is that?

Re: A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava

#50
post #42

Also built a bike computer for my daughter using an esp32, reed switch and magnet. As we had recently watched Back To The Future, when she reached 8.8 mph it would play a brief snippet of appropriate music!

That’s amazing, nice work Dad.

Do you also play the approach music when her power output reaches 1.21 Gigawatts?

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