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Can you share your designs of your scale? What I want is a scale that I can put under the cat food or water bowl (or under the cat litter tray), so that I can
by bradknowles 8y ago
Can you share your designs of your scale?
What I want is a scale that I can put under the cat food or water bowl (or under the cat litter tray), so that I can measure on a minute-by-minute basis how much water was drunk, how much food was eaten, or how much poop or pee was generated, and see those trends over a long period of time.
Cats are really good about hiding weakness and illness, and we've found that frequently one of the best indicators of health issues is a significant change in the intake and output processes.
You could then follow that up with a bigger scale you can put under the food/water bowl area, so that the cat ends up weighing themselves, every time they go to the bowls.
But I want these things recording this data locally, making it available locally, and not sharing it with any facility that is outside of my home.
- kickopotomus 8y agoYou can make one yourself pretty quickly with a Raspberry Pi and a few dollars (<$20) worth of parts. All you need is a load sensor[0] and an ADC[1]. [0]: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10245 https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10245 [1]: https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-adc/ https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-adc/