JG eCatFeeder : AI powered

Hi all,

Here is my latest creation an AI powered cat feeder :)


Inside is a 3D printed mechanism with an auger allowing to push out the pellets.
a servo rotates gears and the auger which is into a PVC pipe.


Cat is detected with a neural network running on an old android phone.
The camera runs in real time and performs cat face detection

When the cat is detected then the auger can run and feeds the cat (only twice a day)

And the phone streams your cat over internet so you can see it eating !

More details here :
newer version here : https://www.printables.com/model/1218706-jp-ecatfeeder

[edit] It was Xmas for my cat...

A drawback of previous design was that I was always feeding the cat with the same amount of food. So sometimes too much when the cat wasn't hungry...

I decided to mod a little my cafeeder to add a balance to weight the food.
A simple load cell + a Hx711 interface circuit, and now :

- always the same quantity of food into the plate
- a real time monitoring of th