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Open lauraskelton opened 10 years ago

lauraskelton commented 10 years ago

Use a Raspberry Pi and an internet-controlled pannable camera with speaker to make a treat-dispensing dog Skype machine
Make it possible to share camera/treat giving access with select friends
Give treat to dog when she comes to the camera when it's on (special sound?)
Ability to see dog and speak to her with different trick commands and reward her immediately through the raspberry pi-equipped treat dispenser when she responds correctly, to reward paying attention to Skype chat

lauraskelton commented 10 years ago

Ordered a Raspberry pi and camera module, as well as external speaker
Various other parts to play around with- Electric Imp and Servo
Need to work on design of hopper to funnel kibble into servo-controlled dispenser wheel to avoid treats getting stuck. Some kind of dual angled plane funnel feed, perhaps with a grating to encourage discrete pieces to fall?
Need to order dry kibble of specific size to test feeding mechanism with

lauraskelton commented 10 years ago

Set up raspberry pi and got webcam working through camera module
Ordered external webcam to help with some issues in the library due to processing speeds
Set up wifi static IP address and auto-connect scripts
Worked on bash scripts
Set up Electric Imp and ran sample code
Ran into connectivity issues with the electric imp

lauraskelton commented 10 years ago

Idea! A capacitive touch button for dog to press after she has learned how to use DogChat, when she wants to call me!

If dog is bored and looking for treats she can press the capacitive touch button to trigger a message to get me to call the dog chat and activate a dog chat session.
Could we use Twilio to integrate an SMS message that sends when the dog calls me?
Initially, it could auto-dispense a treat (perhaps with a delay) to "charge" the button.
It should make an audible sound that the dog can hear and associate with success at calling me.

lauraskelton commented 10 years ago

Switched from camera module to a Sony PS Eye webcam for video capture
Success creating stream from usb webcam input
Created webpage stripped of formatting data with auto-resizing video stream
Created iOS DogChat app
Successfully streamed live webcam video from the camera to the iOS app over the local network
Installed webiopi internet-of-things framework for raspberry pi
Looked into installing ngrok for port tunneling to allow remote access to the dog chat camera without major security sacrifices