Comments on: Catcam

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:53:41 +0000

Twee â€“adjective Chiefly British.
affectedly dainty or quaint: twee writing about furry little creatures.

By: Irishman

Irishman — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:23:45 +0000

Vat is dis, “twee”?

By: Troy

Troy — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:26:49 +0000

Reminds me of an experiment I performed. I attached a cheap longish webcam to a model rocket. It required the next engine size up but actually worked rather well, even taking images of the base rocket 300 feet in the air (against the back drop of the launch site).

By: Grand Lunar

Grand Lunar — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:24:04 +0000

I’d use this on my cat, but since she’s strictly an indoor kitty, it wouldn’t be as fun.

By: slang

slang — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:12:14 +0000

No problem Thomas, just use one of those underwater cams

By: Edward Cohen

Edward Cohen — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:36:34 +0000

I agree, most interesting technology I’ve seen in a long time.
Would like to see more of the same.
Takes me back to the sixties when I built hi-fi equipment from scratch.

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:36:06 +0000

I love cats. So slinky, sensuous and cool. Unfortunately, while my Chow dogs also love cats, they prefer them baked, broiled or fried,,,bummer,,,

I wonder how much fun cats could have in a low G environment? Now a camera enabled cat in that environment would be really entertaining/informative.

GAry 7
PS NEVER laugh at a Siamese cat when she’s just fallen off the transom,,,she’ll likely plan and execute some hideous revenge,,,

By: Hark3n

Hark3n — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:24:45 +0000

I totally love this.

Now this is how science is supposed to be applied. Wonderfull.

I myself have a cat and would have loved having this this past weekend, as we got robbed and, who knows, maybe our kat could have snapped some pics of the burglars.

BTW, love your site. Really the thinking mans blog.

Cheers,
E

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:50:45 +0000

Only problem is that we plan to get us a Turkish Van Cat

By: Mark Hansen

Mark Hansen — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 04:23:50 +0000

That was great! I would love to hook up something like that to our cat. And Aeriks idea alongside the webcam – perfect!

By: Aerik

Aerik — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 02:55:04 +0000

Next, he should put a GPS on the cat so he can see where that secret cat den was.

By: Rowsdower

Rowsdower — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 01:25:54 +0000

Mondo-cool! Coolest application of technology I’ve seen in a long time. Of course, I live in a 1 bedroom apartment and my cat is strictly indoors, so it wouldn’t be very interesting here, but on my sister’s cats…

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By: Crazycowbob

Crazycowbob — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:37:06 +0000

That’s actually really cool! I think I might order one or two of his kits and see what my cats are up to during the day…

By: Scott Hamilton

Scott Hamilton — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:13:17 +0000

That’s frickin’ great. The next time someone claims technology doesn’t make life better, I’m sending them that URL.

By: Kevin F.

Kevin F. — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:13:07 +0000

The snake was a surprise.

By: Christian Burnham

Christian Burnham — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 23:38:14 +0000

I agree. It’s no sillier than looking at stars all night!

I was interested to find out about the secret cat conferences that take place underneath cars.

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 23:26:33 +0000

Not silly at all, very interesting. Now why didn’t I think of that?