She loves to explore the neighborhood and I've often wondered where the heck she goes. My wife would often say, "We need a kitty cam so she can take pictures!" So one day I Googled "kitty cam" and, after being frightened by this site, I stumbled upon a German site called Mr. Lee about a German cat whose owner came up with a kit to modify a keychain digital camera so it takes pictures at regular intervals. For $30 I figured it was worth a shot.
The kit requires some soldering and assembly, but was available sooner and cheaper than a finished camera. Also, the geek in me just couldn't resist tearing apart a camera and doing some surface-mount soldering to get this to work. It was a bit harder than I expected, but after a couple of hours I had it working. It hangs off the cat's collar and while it's not very heavy, I can't imagine it's something a cat would want to walk around with all day. I figured we'd give Nutty a few hours off "break-in" time with it before sending her out on her first big adventure.
Look out Annie Leibovitz!
The wife's lap. Obviously there should be a kitty there instead of a computer.
Glamour shot of me eating Fritos. Sorry ladies, I'm taken.
4 comments:
I need to get one of those!
So is it streaming video or just snapshots every few minutes?
Oh yeah, I'm a dork. "Regular intervals", there it is, right in your post. Got it.
Fritos, why are you so delicious?
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