Intelligent cat door utilizes Twitter, RFID masterfully
By Darren Murph 
posted Apr 9th 2009 12:21AM
posted Apr 9th 2009 12:21AM
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Nice, Rube Goldberg at it again.
Funny, my cat is actually sitting on the corner of my desk at the moment.
finally a real use for twitter
Where's the toilet seat version?
That is so awesome. I wish I had a cat. :(
Good, now I can see when my cat goes in and out while I'm at work.
I must say, my cat is envious. Mostly because he doesnt have a cat door at all, and when he does get out, the dog normally chases him and drags him back to the house by the scruff of his neck.
Oh, and the image quality is terrible on that camera.
Yeah this is very cool. Especially the twittering. But I agree, that camera needs a serious upgrade.
Great, now cats are actually going to be able to make and post his/her own original "lolcats" pics.... the world is over.
Iz in your hous tweetin' on your 'puter
You misspelled your. Should be "ur".
Iz in ur hous tweetin' on ur 'puter
@kimleng
lolcatsnob
My kitties already have an RFID-based cat door, the PetPorte from the UK. http://www.petporte.com/
They needed it to keep a raccoon out of the house. I admit the twittering is cool though!
This product looks really good!
This door also works on a freezer.
no video? somewhere a lolcat is sad.
An RFID cat door, huh? I wish I'd had this four-to-seven years ago, when I had a cat.
I don't know which is more useless - cats or twitter... or fans of either.
I'm sorry that your mother apparently doesn't love you.
You know Twitter is pointless when...
No, it's always been in a big useless bag of wank.
Finally I get what Twitter been invented for!
CATDOOR @owner I thought I taw a puddy cat. I did! I did! I did taw a puddy cat! 11 minutes ago from frontdoor
I can haz opin sezme?
Why do it so hard way... My cat connect herself to Internet via ADSL so that she can use twitter:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whig/3372248997/ :-)
Oooh - this is like my CATaLOG project over at http://www.nermal.org/projects/catalog
You can see the cat status over at http://catalog.nermal.net
Are your cats chipped or just wearing a collar with an RFID tag in them ?
They are both - I was going to read the chip inside them but the readers to work on the right frequency are a lot less common and more expensive, so I decided to use a more standard reader / tags.
If I find a reasonably priced one that works on the right frequency I might switch it over :)
why do i still have to worry about my keys and the cat doesnt!? the cat recession probably hasnt kicked in just yet....
This is not nearly as cool as the Flo Control DIY cat door from several years ago. It uses image recognition to only let the cat in when it doesn't have something in its mouth.
http://www.quantumpicture.com/Flo_Control/flo_control.htm
Holy Mother of Crap. This is beyond useless...its nerdly useless.
My wife is disputing the name of your cat Gus.... a cat cannot be named Gus unless the cat is ginormous... like my Great Dane named Gus.. 150 pound puppy and still a growing :)
btw, Petsmart sells a rfid based automatic doggy door, would not bee too much of a stretch to add twitter and such to it I imagine....
If the US government had a dime for every gratuitous use or mention of Twitter we would have no deficit.
@Schrodinger: I'm not dead yet!
Here's a similar one using camera motion detection to Tweet when the cats are in the litter box.
http://bigfatmollycat.com/
This is similar to something I have set up for my dog. I gave him the username @scruffthedog. If you reply to him with the message "What are you doing?" it takes a picture of him and posts it to twitpic. You can see it at http://www.twitter.com/scruffthedog.
Wow. That's a really crappy way to live life as a dog. In a cage all the time?? Damn.
VIDEO ... VIDEO .. VIDEO ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZyMCcbwBpM