ioBridge Blog » star trek http://blog.iobridge.com News and Projects from the ioBridge Community Fri, 18 May 2012 16:11:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 LaserPup: The Remote Laser Pointer Pet Toy http://blog.iobridge.com/2009/02/laserpup-the-remote-laser-pointer-pet-toy/ http://blog.iobridge.com/2009/02/laserpup-the-remote-laser-pointer-pet-toy/#comments Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:20:22 +0000 hans http://www.iobridge.net/projects/?p=159 LaserPup is burning up the Internet. Joe of laserpup.com has created an interactive, Internet controlled and monitored pet toy, for his fluffy dog Skyler. Joe can log into an “iPhone friendly web app” that allows him to watch his dog from work, click a button to sound off a buzzer, and play with the dog using a laser pointer by clicking around his web interface. The system uses a couple of servos for x and y axis movement of the laser pointer and a few ioBridge widgets to make things work in the web app. Some dogs and cats love the laser pointer, chasing the light source all around – it’s healthy, fun exercise for pets in moderation.

When we first heard of the project, we thought this has something to do with dogs doing epic battles with lasers (nice Star Trek and ‘Skyborg’ reference, btw), but this is a very practical project. On the laserpup.com you will find a video, instructions, screen captures, and all of the de-tails to make your own Internet controlled pet toy for dogs and cats (I have to believe they will love it too). Awesome project Joe and thanks for sharing LaserPup with all of us. This YouTube video, enhanced with some Daft Punk, says the rest.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMUCPWU0d4s

Follow the project further at LaserPup.com, MAKE, Hack-a-Day, Oh Gizmo, Hacked Gadgets, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Well done Joe!

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