Building a Coffee Pot Monitor Using Raspberry Pi

Re:Building a Coffee Pot Monitor Using Raspberry Pi by bradknowles on Thursday August 01, 2019 @12:24AM (#20581058)

So, I’ve been thinking about something like this for doing continuous weight measurement of cat food and water bowls.

And then the thought occurred to me that we could build an even larger platform to put under that, so that we could also monitor the weight of the cat itself (or themselves).

For a multi-cat household and variable bowl weights, you would have to combine the weight measurements with video surveillance cameras, so that you could confirm which cat is eating or drinking from which bowl. However, with some OpenCV work plus ML, you might be able to automate a lot of that.

Thoughts?

Anyone else interested in such a project?

Or maybe there are already projects out there in this space that I don’t know about?

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Re:Building a Coffee Pot Monitor Using Raspberry Pi by AndrewOMartin on Thursday August 01, 2019 @06:12AM (#20582527)

My primary and overwhelming thought is "feature creep".

Try first to get a working prototype that measures the amount of water in the bowl.

Then worry about weighing the solid food, multiple bowls, weighing the cat, multiple cats, connecting the CCTV to power and network, automated cat identification, setting up OpenCV, doing a ML, and the User Interface.

Edit: I forgot sales and marketing, a common mistake :)

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