Video: Internet dog feeder feeds your dog... via the internet
By Laura June 
posted Jan 26th 2009 4:33PM
posted Jan 26th 2009 4:33PM
A young man named Tyler's built a little gadget that will feed his dog even when he's not around. Using an ioBridge IO-204 module and a continuously rotating servo in the feeder, he's able to dispense some kibble via a web page he's built which monitors the action via a webcam. Check the video -- the dog sure seems to think it's rad.
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didn't doc brown have something like this
My thoughts exactly.
can i get the url?
I want to cause a flood of food from MY computer, and make the dog fat, so we can profit when we sell it for steaks in Chinatown!
@Imayam:
Firstly, Chinese Americans don't eat dogs. You're going to have to ship the dog over to China for even the remote chance of selling the dog for food. You'd be better off selling the dog as a pet.
Secondly, if I could low rank you multiple times, I would.
@ WC
"why so serious" ?
i thought it was funny
What if the dog needs medicine for worms ?
Can this feed it to hi BEFORE the food and guarrantee he swallows it?
@WC - If i could low rank YOUR MOM multiple times I would! OH SHIT!
Maybe if you're shown enough examples of sarcasm, that pointy stick might fall out of your ass.
@ ImaYam
I thought the Chinese cooked cats and passed them off as chicken?
Ha! If you knew what we really used, you'd wish they were cats.
Please tell me I'm not the only person who tried to read the URL. (All I could get was no-ip.org...)
Nice idea, needs to be built outta diamond plate or something, as that contraption built out of cardboard would last all of 10 seconds with my dog. :-)
I will shell out some coin for a internet dog poop cleaner-upper.
dog + box = NOM NOM NOM no box
Rotties FTW
That dog is awesome!
+1
It's a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. I have two and they are awesome dogs.
I heard there's a new company allowing you to raise your children remotely like this. I think they're called Cyberdine Systems.
I for one embrace our robotic overlords.
- Nick
Foolish humans, we metallic overlords require not what you call "embrace."
yay thumbs-up :D
There is part of me that wishes I had that address.
The kids these days are really smart! Parents! Please don't forget to teach them good manners too!
This little fella's manners are okay, said "thanks for your time" in the end, I'm not talking about him. I'm talking about some young online player's whose vocabulary is much wider than my own when it comes to saying inappropriate things....
But kids these days are surely smart. Nice idea.
Agree, way to go, kid! Your dad should be proud!
On the side note, I wish I had ioBridge when I was a kid... and Internet too.
wasn't something very similar to this on make.com. I think they called it the kitty feeder but it used a vcr and not a webcam
pretty cool... but is there an internet-controlled Roomba to vacuum up the little bastards poo while you're on vacation?
Doggy Poo is actually kind of cute, if you know what I'm saying.
I'm sure you can buy it from walmart.
Look at this guys version.. one word INDUSTRIAL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOkEU1OXS1Y&feature=related
how much do you wanna bet that guy's basement is full of creepy homemade bondage machines
"how much do you wanna bet that guy's basement is full of creepy homemade bondage machines"
You say that like it might be a bad thing.
Wow, that kid is really smart!
Hes using Firefox :]
yo internet dawg feeder feedin ur dawg with internet!
Eh, I saw something just like this a couple of years ago. A guest lecturer in one of my university classes had made one and showed us webcam footage of his dog running around crazily.
He worked for TransACT (which I expect most of you will not have heard of).
K cool. I'll file this under my "things i don't give a flying fcuk about" category. Something I'M SURE you've never heard about.
Actually, I have such a category, and your category is filed under it.
Now you're just being ridiculous...
To tell the truth, I've never heard of YOU before (at least, not to remember), let alone the categories you use to file my posts under.
If you inform me of what kind of posts you are interested in reading from me, I'm sure I can accommodate* you.
(read: laugh manically and promptly forget the existence of)
can it feed my cat?
To the dog?
Cats are smarter than dogs and wont overeat so you can just leave a bowl of food out and it will eat what it needs to when its hungry and not eat till it gets sick and throws up all over the floor.
Cats are pussies.
For sure dude. That's why you see all those "seeing eye cats" for the blind, and bomb sniffing felines. Oh and don't forget the search and rescue cats, those are the BEST. Cats are MUCH more intelligent...
It...... was....... a...... JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't even have a cat. But if I did, I would use this device to feed my cat to my dog! Thanks 404.
@utahnkid
He's right cats are smarter than dogs, they just don't give a shit about human life.
Longest. Thumb. Ever.
HAHAHA I was thinking the same thing.
wow. kids these days, especially this kid. back when i was his age - i'm assuming around 10-12 i'm horrible at guessing ages- i was rolling in mud puddles and running into walls for fun. And i'm only 16. nice work kid.
It will be a matter of time before the dog hacks the machine to give him/her unlimited food.
Time to hack his computer and give his dog unlimited food. Also I wish there were some way of feeding myself through the internet.
you can order pizza over the internet or via text.
That's genius. Only thing left is to mass produce.
Don't forget to patent it too!
I wish he could feed me some internet
Aren't dogs all pussy-like and start crying and destroying furniture when they are left alone? I don't know what a dog would do if it only had this feeding robot for company.
This could work for cats though, they aren't pussies and they're ok as long as the food keeps coming
Stop by my place some time and I will let you meet my 120lb Rottweiller. When you do come over, make sure you knock real loud on the door, then take his food away, and don't let him have his favorite bone.
Then we can see who the real pussy is.
"This could work for CATS though, they aren't PUSSIES"
Uhhhhhh... if you say so, guess I missed the memo.
Also, cue the sharks.
This seems like the start of what happened in that Untraceable movie.
P.S. I had to see it because my friends and I went to the movie and we each picked a movie to see. This was not my choice.
http://www.smarthome.com/6184CK/Remote-Pet-Feeding-Viewing-Camera-Kit-Large-Feeder/p.aspx
its been done before and is already commercially available in an Insteon compatible kit. Engadget dropped the ball on this one IMHO, nothing special.
This was made by a child, which is why we're interested.
Very clever. I'd not have been able to do the same when I was his age, but back then all we had were sticks, mud, sinew and flint.
Get rid of your dog if you cant care for it. Properly.
If building a ROBOT for your dog isn't taking care of it properly, I don't know what is...
@dan
I hope to Christ you don't have a dog, or children for that matter.
So if you go on vacation intending to feed your dog via internet while you're away, and then the 'net goes out, does your dog die?
done before
@2:05
http://www.viddler.com/explore/badboycal01/videos/4/
FUUUUCKKK
I'm partway through an engineering degree and i can't even do that. Time to wrap this shit up and change my major to tomfoolery or something.
Pee Wee's was better.
you kids and your crazy contraptions...
Whatever. Now if it used a sensor that knew when the dog was hungry and it tweeted to the human that the dog wants to be fed; that would be epic.
But it is still cool.
the HEIGHT of laziness?
*Internet connection fails*
*Dog cannot eat*
*Dies from starvation*
:(
Now, if someone could just invent something to walk my dog and pick up her poop...
Cool gadget!
Kinda a shame that the dog's mouth will start watering every time it hears a servo! LOL
Want to have this in my house,
but my dogs would probably destroy the box for more food,
he couldn't wait.
Seriously.