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Looks like they applied the CueCat model to actual cats. A pet feeder that needs Internet access? Come on. This is something that's a job for a dumb timer, or,
by flyinghamster 10y ago
Looks like they applied the CueCat model to actual cats.
A pet feeder that needs Internet access? Come on. This is something that's a job for a dumb timer, or, at most, a simple microcontroller.
- napworth 10y agoI understand the benefit of creating a pet feeder with Internet connectivity. It allows you to provide a web portal to your customers so they can update their feeder timings or view food reserve quantities while they're in the office or on holiday. But making it so the pet feeder needs to be connected to dispense food?? That's insane. The internet connectivity should be to upload new timings. But if a connection can't be made, the old timings should continue to be used. Write failsafes into your models!
- 50CNT 10y agoWhich in this case is just a slightly smarter timer. But then slapping pointless "HOT NEW TECHNOLOGY" on things thinking you'll make a buck isn't exactly new. <s>That said, you wanna invest in my "Big Data pet feeder"? It runs hadoop and its all cloud 2.0.</s>