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Yeah, that sentence shows me that this guy isn't an engineer at all, he's just a hacker. If he made his own automatic litter box (the rotating drum kind) for h
by shiroiuma 3y ago
Yeah, that sentence shows me that this guy isn't an engineer at all, he's just a hacker.
If he made his own automatic litter box (the rotating drum kind) for his cat, he'll also not see the point of all those sensors that "aren't really needed", and one day he'll come home to find his cat chopped in half.
- ginko 3y agoThis take is unnecessarily negative. OP could be very aware of the limitations of their chosen approach and use the feeder accordingly.
- shiroiuma 3y agoPerhaps, but I didn't see anything to that effect in his text. His comment about there being "too many" sensors that he didn't even know the function of, or seem to appreciate the presence of at all, seems to contraindicate your assumption. Consumer electronics are generally made cheaply, so they don't put sensors in there for no reason at all. Usually there's a very good reason they're in there.
- paradox460 3y agoWhen the device was in service, the sensors didn't really work, and were likely never enabled in the software. The hopper feed level never accurately indicated in-app, and was mostly just based on calculating the approximate amount dispensed vs a "full" hopper, and the machine would often happily report that it dispensed food, and never actually did, so I doubt the scales actually were enabled either