UX for Cats and Dogs!

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Three cats and one dog send selfies from a home photo booth built on a Raspberry Pi with a camera, servo-driven treat feeder, Node 8 + Express, GPIO libraries and the Twilio API; dozens of photos prove it works though the live demo is flaky and sometimes slow. Hardware fixes include separate servo power and machining a PVC valve rotor to stop jams, training uses treat-conditioned sound cues, source code lives on GitLab not GitHub, and security is a small paw-proof slot.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:58HARDWARE DESIGN
3. 2:19SOFTWARE DESIGN
4. 3:04FIRST ATTEMPT AT MECHANISM
5. 3:48REFACTORING THROUGH VIOLENCE!
6. 5:38USER TRAINING - EARLY AND OFTEN!
7. 6:25SECURITY-FIRST DESIGN

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