Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
Project 9
The Raspberry
Pi-enabled Pet/Wildlife
Monitor
In this project, we will discuss how the Raspberry Pi can interact with other devices on a
network. This device can either be a laptop, an Arduino, or any other device connected to
a network. We will make use of the capability of the Raspberry Pi to act as a control device
in the network and implement a simple soluion that can safely interact with our precious
litle animal friends.
Mission briefing
In this project, we will learn to build an interacive pet or wildlife (we call it wildlife in the
context of animals that are not domesicated, for example, wild cats) monitor that can be
monitored and controlled within a network (with some extra effort you should be able to
control anywhere on the Web). This project presents three diferent possibiliies where we
can make use of the Raspberry Pi in combinaion with other devices to build an interacive
device for pets that dispense treats to interface with devices that either interact with pets/
feral cats/birds. This interacive device can either be a camera that captures a moment (for
example, a wild bird coming and eaing out of your bird feeder) or a relay board acivated
to feed treats to our animal friend while we are away from home.
