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Re: Automated Cat feeder powered by Node.js

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Post by joshschreuder »

CaptSpify wrote: post #39
mkoryak wrote: post #25

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My cat doesn't care if the food is cold. In fact, he will eat pretty much anything. He loves to eat the salad we make every day for dinner, and its not just the avocado, the other day he ate some tomato that I dropped on the floor by mistake. If your cat doesn't like cold food, perhaps you are feeding him too much?

More likely: the cats are just different. I've had cats that were super picky eaters, and ones that will eat almost anything.

I think from an evolutionary standpoint, having warm food is probably more to their liking (killing prey and eating it), though I agree with your point, as my cat doesn't seem to care either way if it's room temperature or cold.

Re: Automated Cat feeder powered by Node.js

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Post by ntumlin »

commandar wrote: post #42
ntumlin wrote: post #40

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I mean this in the nicest way possible, but is this satire? I actually can't tell. Between go rewrite, criticizing the language choice, and wanting to just stick a tube in your mouth and be automatically fed soylent this almost seems generated by a markov chain. If sincere I apologize.

I'm mostly impressed that this kind of Poe's Law material is the only comment on a 1400 day old account.

Well, it's not my only comment, I think that older ones only show up to me though past a certain point and I haven't commented in a while. And surely I'm not too crazy to think he could be serious, I mean there's so much on here that talks about the same thing, maybe just not all together, and I hope I'm not the victim of some long running hyper-trendy startup joke.

Re: Automated Cat feeder powered by Node.js

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Post by joshschreuder »

baldeagle wrote: post #3

I backed a kickstarter for something like this, plus a wifi camera and laser pointer. It hasn't shipped yet, but does look like it might actually deliver (which is something for hardward KS). http://kittyo.com/

That's pretty cool, do you know how it's powered? I don't see any cords, which implies battery, but I can't imagine it would be battery given the wifi connectedness etc.

Re: Automated Cat feeder powered by Node.js

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Post by keehun »

krisroadruck wrote: post #12
keehun wrote: post #6

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Holy batman that scroll hijacking.

I have to ask. Why do people dislike this? The browser scroll bar is often ugly as sin. Also its useful when having more than one area that needs scrolling capability without having that ugly default scrollbar junk up the middle of the screen in said application.

There are some (very few, rare) scroll-hijackers that work pretty well. This one is not one of them. In fact, the one used on this site is one of the worst. Why I say this is its behavior. Instead of smooth scrolls, it seems like there is a certain threshold at which the scroll bar "ticks." They mask this tick by slapping on it a tween animation. So it's a bunch of ticks that result in tween animations. There are beautiful scroll-hijackers that use complicated math to make it an actually smooth experience. This one is neither smooth nor helpful. There are also those scroll-hijackers that are employed to do card/slide/page based interfaces. Those are still awful, much more understandable than this garbage.

Re: Automated Cat feeder powered by Node.js

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Post by striking »

ntumlin wrote: post #62
commandar wrote: post #42

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I'm mostly impressed that this kind of Poe's Law material is the only comment on a 1400 day old account.

Well, it's not my only comment, I think that older ones only show up to me though past a certain point and I haven't commented in a while. And surely I'm not too crazy to think he could be serious, I mean there's so much on here that talks about the same thing, maybe just not all together, and I hope I'm not the victim of some long running hyper-trendy startup joke.

No, it's his only comment (his account's about two months older than you, funny that it happens to be that close).

Re: Automated Cat feeder powered by Node.js

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Post by bobbyd3 »

2xlbuds wrote: post #51

I never understood the point of automatic feeders for cats - you lose out on that association your cat makes with you feeding them so your cat doesn't necessarily like you as much.

My cats are very neurotic when it comes to me feeding them. Sometimes they don't eat when I am not standing right by them. I am looking to disassociate myself from feeding time as much as possible.

Re: Automated Cat feeder powered by Node.js

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Post by commandar »

ntumlin wrote: post #62
commandar wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm mostly impressed that this kind of Poe's Law material is the only comment on a 1400 day old account.

Well, it's not my only comment, I think that older ones only show up to me though past a certain point and I haven't commented in a while. And surely I'm not too crazy to think he could be serious, I mean there's so much on here that talks about the same thing, maybe just not all together, and I hope I'm not the victim of some long running hyper-trendy startup joke.

like striking pointed out, I was referring to the OP, not you. Your reaction was completely in-line with mine.

Re: Automated Cat feeder powered by Node.js

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Post by rhgraysonii »

nyan4 wrote: post #44
steveklabnik wrote: post #19

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> Sorry to be boring but a simple timer seems more sensible. Not all projects are about being sensible. This is "hacker" News after all. > And kitty needs water. Water and food have different needs; an automatic water fountain like http://www.amazon.com/Drinkwell-Platinum-Pet-Fountain-168oz/... keeps a pool of water fresh at all times, without needing to dispense a particular measure of it.

> Not all projects are about being sensible. This is "hacker" News after all. Problem is: people in the node.js community have a pattern of going from the "weekend hack" to the "production" stage in weeks. Code maturity has no meaning to some.

If were being honest with ourselves, are we really concerned about the code maturity of a simple server feeding a cat? This isn't rocket science. Its a silly/fun project.

Re: Automated Cat feeder powered by Node.js

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Post by ohhoe »

2xlbuds wrote: post #51

I never understood the point of automatic feeders for cats - you lose out on that association your cat makes with you feeding them so your cat doesn't necessarily like you as much.

My cats are lap cats and I've been using automated feeders for over a year.

I guess some people just have crappy cats.

Re: Automated Cat feeder powered by Node.js

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Post by kator »

mnort9 wrote: post #49
kator wrote: post #45

I built one of these a couple of months ago using a rPI and a simple relay to control the 12v feed to one of these: http://www.super-feeder.com/csfmodel.html Literally the code to feed them is a crontab: 0 5,11,17 * * * /home/pi/bin/feed - > /dev/null 2>&1 Using this script in /home/pi/bin/feed: #!/bin/bash export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH ( source gpio echo "Using pin 12" gpio mode 12 out gpio mode 12 out gpio write 12 0…

I'm looking to build something similar. What did you use as a hopper?

The super feeder (linked in my original comment) is amazing, high quality, really strong, so far I'm very happy with it.
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