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Animals using electronics? (a good topic for an open thread)
« on: November 26, 2020, 06:59:58 pm »
I just stumbled across a bunch of stories on pets, and especially companion dogs being easily trained to use touch screen electronics and thought that might make a good open thread.

Something that's fun and possible to implement if we have some idea perhaps. It would be neat to somehow do something interactive with a touch screen and wild animals.

(but what?)

Edit: It appears that there is a whole discipline called Animal Centered Interface Design.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170210031155/http://acid.uclan.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/acm-womens-conference.pdf

also see

https://theconversation.com/touchscreens-for-dogs-wearables-for-chickens-welcome-to-the-world-of-animal-technology-60978

In other news, people have built vending machines that can be used by crows to buy peanuts.

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Re: Animals using electronics? (a good topic for an open thread)
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2020, 08:15:13 pm »
Mount the screen on a robot so that pets can see their owners from far away.
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Re: Animals using electronics? (a good topic for an open thread)
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2020, 01:15:27 am »
This is an interesting video, and Momo looks like a great dog.

 Huskies, Malamutes, Samoyeds, etc. are (IMHO, a little biased here, because I've owned 3 of them) far more fun than most dogs, because they are very independently minded, very smart, so much so that they are almost human.

The robot she has has a non-functional front left wheel. Its preventing the robot from moving around properly.

But I do think the concept is a great one. Assuming its not too expensive, sure, I'd get one for when I was away, so I could see what my dog was up to while I was gone, why not?
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Re: Animals using electronics? (a good topic for an open thread)
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2020, 01:14:07 pm »
This 'may' be 'partially' off topic...  but years back when I moved from Adelaide to Perth, (Australia), I brought my CAT!
We keep our cats inside at night, for all the obvious reasons, but give them freedom during the day time. THIS cat was
ok for a while, as it knew where it was fed/loved, but slowly started to roam more & more, and for longer periods...  :P

So I had a 'bright' idea, and attached an old junk iPhone-3 to it, and some tracking software at home, to try and see
where it went!!  (Ha ha..). The cat ended up disappearing down some distant storm water drains, and never came back.
So much for electronics!  I know you can rent stuff from the Council, but it's quite expensive!    ;D

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Re: Animals using electronics? (a good topic for an open thread)
« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2020, 03:34:06 pm »
Ooof, not to sound like a downer, but strapping stuff to free roaming cats is not a good idea. Even collars can be trouble and may cause the cat to get stuck somewhere.
I shudder thinking about the cat with the phone stapped to it's back getting stuck in a storm drain somewhere :(
 
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Re: Animals using electronics? (a good topic for an open thread)
« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2020, 08:19:36 pm »
Did you at least go to the place to see if you could find the cat?
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Re: Animals using electronics? (a good topic for an open thread)
« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2020, 09:08:24 pm »
A classic:

http://www.thecrowbox.com/

This guy built a coin-op vending machine for crows. He expects wild corvids to pay US$0.25 per peanut? Even a hungry pigeon wouldn't take that deal! :palm:
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Re: Animals using electronics? (a good topic for an open thread)
« Reply #7 on: December 01, 2020, 10:22:17 pm »


hers my cat story
catfight in electronics. always needed an excuse to clean up the Leb .

 this poor intruder picked the wrong cat-door! to take food from.
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Re: Animals using electronics? (a good topic for an open thread)
« Reply #8 on: December 02, 2020, 01:33:36 am »
A classic:

http://www.thecrowbox.com/

This guy built a coin-op vending machine for crows. He expects wild corvids to pay US$0.25 per peanut? Even a hungry pigeon wouldn't take that deal! :palm:

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Once we’ve got the system optimized for teaching coin collection we can move to seeing how flexibly they can learn *other* tasks, like collecting garbage, sorting through discarded electronics, or maybe even search and rescue. The idea isn't to get rich off found coins - we want to change the world through learning how to cooperate with other species.

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Re: Animals using electronics? (a good topic for an open thread)
« Reply #9 on: December 02, 2020, 03:08:26 am »
Did you at least go to the place to see if you could find the cat?

It was only on the cat for a few hours, and then removed. Later, it would wander a fair way, and we noticed it
often going down street drains. Eventually we never saw it again!
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Re: Animals using electronics? (a good topic for an open thread)
« Reply #10 on: December 02, 2020, 07:52:09 am »
catfight in electronics. always needed an excuse to clean up the Leb.
That place needs a good clean-out. How on earth can you operate in that environment?  :D
 

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Re: Animals using electronics? (a good topic for an open thread)
« Reply #11 on: December 02, 2020, 08:45:55 am »
catfight in electronics. always needed an excuse to clean up the Leb.
That place needs a good clean-out. How on earth can you operate in that environment?  :D
so true. the other room its up to the ceiling.  I keep a lot more then I dump.   :-\ 
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Re: Animals using electronics? (a good topic for an open thread)
« Reply #12 on: December 02, 2020, 10:18:24 am »
Laika the dog and Ham the astrochimp like this thread.

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Re: Animals using electronics? (a good topic for an open thread)
« Reply #13 on: December 02, 2020, 04:53:57 pm »
animals in space.   animal to instrument interface designs started with NASA   in the 1950s.
https://history.nasa.gov/animals.html

Operation Acoustic Kitty” was a secret plan to turn cats into portable electronic spying devices.
https://www.history.com/news/cia-spy-cat-espionage-fail
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Re: Animals using electronics? (a good topic for an open thread)
« Reply #14 on: December 05, 2020, 11:26:30 pm »
He's making a huge profit on the peanuts from those crows.. that smacks of exploitation.

A classic:

http://www.thecrowbox.com/

This guy built a coin-op vending machine for crows. He expects wild corvids to pay US$0.25 per peanut? Even a hungry pigeon wouldn't take that deal! :palm:
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Re: Animals using electronics? (a good topic for an open thread)
« Reply #15 on: January 01, 2021, 08:03:26 pm »

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Re: Animals using electronics? (a good topic for an open thread)
« Reply #16 on: January 01, 2021, 08:04:43 pm »
Although there are no electronics involved, I am posting because of their shocking lack of defense :)

https://rumble.com/vc67y1-rats-show-off-their-basketball-skills.html
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Re: Animals using electronics? (a good topic for an open thread)
« Reply #17 on: January 01, 2021, 10:37:07 pm »
https://youtu.be/qyJomdyjyvM

Long version, Vsauce Michael vs Chimp :)
https://youtu.be/ktkjUjcZid0

My question:
I could not figure out how i  need to add youtube links to my messages
so it can be seen as if in the above messages.
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Re: Animals using electronics? (a good topic for an open thread)
« Reply #18 on: January 03, 2021, 06:25:11 am »
https://youtu.be/qyJomdyjyvM

Long version, Vsauce Michael vs Chimp :)
https://youtu.be/ktkjUjcZid0

My question:
I could not figure out how i  need to add youtube links to my messages
so it can be seen as if in the above messages.

Don't shorten the URL to "youtu.be", it needs to be the full proper URL of "youtube.com".
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Re: Animals using electronics? (a good topic for an open thread)
« Reply #19 on: January 03, 2021, 12:34:55 pm »
My favorite example: see the string of posts beginning here...
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/stock-electronic-image-fails/msg3312448/#msg3312448
 

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Re: Animals using electronics? (a good topic for an open thread)
« Reply #20 on: January 03, 2021, 03:58:44 pm »
Thanks for the reply.
I could not find how to directly copy the full link from
youtube app on android so
i copy the link from phone than
paste it to the internet browser on the phone and
browser converted the shortened link to the full one
got the full link from internet browser
that is the end product :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyJomdyjyvM&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktkjUjcZid0&feature=youtu.be
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