Video: Internet dog feeder feeds your dog... via the internet

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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[sip Posted Jan 26th 2009 5:30PM]

Don't forget to patent it too!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 5:18PM]

I wish he could feed me some internet

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 5:22PM]

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

[NohOne Posted Jan 26th 2009 5:52PM]

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.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 6:56PM]

"This could work for CATS though, they aren't PUSSIES"

Uhhhhhh... if you say so, guess I missed the memo.


Also, cue the sharks.

[Zaraki Kenpachi Posted Jan 26th 2009 5:30PM]

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.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 6:02PM]

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.

[LauraJuneTopolsky Posted Jan 26th 2009 6:27PM]

This was made by a child, which is why we're interested.

[ninjagin Posted Jan 26th 2009 6:19PM]

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.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 7:00PM]

Get rid of your dog if you cant care for it. Properly.

[mondaymorning Posted Jan 26th 2009 7:20PM]

If building a ROBOT for your dog isn't taking care of it properly, I don't know what is...

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 7:46PM]

@dan
I hope to Christ you don't have a dog, or children for that matter.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 7:11PM]

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?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 7:26PM]

done before
@2:05
http://www.viddler.com/explore/badboycal01/videos/4/

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 7:34PM]

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.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 7:43PM]

Pee Wee's was better.

[karangamar Posted Jan 27th 2009 1:17AM]

you kids and your crazy contraptions...

[SteveBIRK Posted Jan 26th 2009 8:49PM]

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.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 9:36PM]

the HEIGHT of laziness?

[mp3 Posted Jan 26th 2009 10:20PM]

*Internet connection fails*
*Dog cannot eat*
*Dies from starvation*

:(

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 27th 2009 12:42AM]

Now, if someone could just invent something to walk my dog and pick up her poop...

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 27th 2009 4:47AM]

Cool gadget!

Kinda a shame that the dog's mouth will start watering every time it hears a servo! LOL

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 29th 2009 4:56AM]

Want to have this in my house,
but my dogs would probably destroy the box for more food,
he couldn't wait.

Seriously.