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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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Post by morkalork »

forinti wrote: post #51
otherme123 wrote: post #17

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> 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...

When I had cats, I couldn't leave the bedroom door wide open, because that would give them space to come running into the room and jump onto the bed (sometimes on my face) at early hours.

And here I can't keep them closed because they'll stick their paws under to get a grip with their claws and bang them for funsies

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

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Post by e28eta »

WhyNotHugo wrote: post #6

> Over one seven-day stretch, he started within the same 10-minute window on five nights, between 9:54 and 10:04 p.m. I wonder if this correlates with Thijs's bedtime schedule, or if the hamster really is that precise. We feed the cat at home at the same time every day, and her internal clock definitely know when it's time less than 30' divergence. She suffers the daylight transitions immensely too because of this.

Every year when DST transitions out, I say “next time we should move the cats’ dinner time gradually leading up to it”, but never remember. I now have reminders for the 5 days leading up to move it later by 10 minutes a day. I don’t know if it will actually make a difference

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Post by jader201 »

brightbeige wrote: post #58
aanet wrote: post #2

Mollie the Hamster, on Strava: https://strava.app.link/FMubyPjMa5b Project: > The main parts are an ESP32 attached to a hall sensor, which I positioned close to the wheel. Using a magnet attached to the back of the wheel, this tells the ESP32 when a full rotation has completed. It gives a timestamp (and total distance) to each magnet-pass, which is stored on the network. A python script (on my laptop) then retrieves…

https://old.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1v9uyq0/i_buil...

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

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Post by tough »

chongli wrote: post #66
berkes wrote: post #37

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> crepuscular So not specifically at 5AM, but around twilight. In my area, and for my cats, that changes a lot between summer and winter. Same for my chickens, which is why "automatic chicken doors" are difficult/impossible around here: It'd need to calculate sunset and sundown, and then also consider clouds and trees: in winter the sun sets around 16:30, but the low angle makes sunlight more blocked by clouds, parti…

The automation features in Apple Home can be set to do things at sunrise or sunset. These track down to the minute the sunrise/sunset times from the weather app data for your location. Your best bet, if you really want an automatic chicken door, is to get a dumb one that just opens when powered on and closes (via springs) when powered off, then plug it into a smart outlet automated to turn on at sunrise and off at su…

I wonder if a motion sensor detector would make the last mile of it more precise, as soon as a chicken wakes up just open the doors idk (if on timeframe)

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Post by tough »

Theodores wrote: post #87
SyzygyRhythm wrote: post #3

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…

To complement the treat rewards, can you get the cat wheel to power a small pump to provide a water fountain for the cat? Assuming the treats are dispensed after a variable amount of distance is travelled on the cat wheel (to turn your cat into a 'gambler' of sorts, thereby keeping your cat on the wheel in the hope of a treat), a water fountain with 'fresh' water should enable your cat to avoid dehydration (due to th…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber

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

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Post by tough »

brightbeige wrote: post #68

Reminds me of Nobel and Ignobel prize winner Andrei Geim, who authorer a paper with his hamster, H.A.M.S. ter Tisha. As I remember, he added Mr/Ms Tisha to be able to write “we” instead of “I”. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09214...

I thought in papers the majestic we was just a given even for solo writers I guess depends on the OCD of one if thats acceptable

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Post by tough »

MBCook wrote: post #72
interludead wrote: post #29

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I knew mice were active at night, but I wouldn't have guessed 10k+ was routine

My hamster broke his record with 22k revolutions on his 10” wheel a few nights ago. That’s about 11.5 miles. That’s much higher than usual, but when they want they can go .

what if you put a screen so it has a full simulator in the wheel
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