Project Floofball: An Iot Hamster Wheel
Made by 8BitsAndAByte
About the project
An IoT Hamsterwheel made using a Raspberry Pi and a magnetic door sensor, to see how far my hamster runs.
Project info
Difficulty: Moderate
Platforms: Adafruit, Raspberry Pi, ThingSpeak
Estimated time: 1 week
License: GNU General Public License, version 3 or later (GPL3+)
Items used in this project
Hardware components
Story
The final project is an IoT hamster wheel made with a Raspberry Pi, that tracks my hamster's runs in his wheel.
Full project video below:
Full project video.I used a magnetic door sensor to track the turning of the hamster wheel, not only because it's very easy, but it also wouldn't hurt or kill my hamster.
Magnetic door sensor
A first working test version, attached to an old hamster wheel.
A first working test version, attached to an old hamster-wheel.
All attached to the real hamster wheel in Harold's cage, ready for a test run!
Test setup.
Harold testing his IoT wheel, he seems to like it :)
A lasercut box in progress, to hide all the wires and hold the LCD screen.
A summary of all the data collected so far. As you can see, it's not always very accurate, the sensor got stuck a number of times, creating records of +40km a day, but overall it's pretty neat!
The data collected by the IoT hamsterwheel.
Code
Credits
8BitsAndAByte
We’re Dane & Nicole, two makers that create tremendously terrible tech, which we happily share with you on our channel! https://www.youtube.com/c/8bitsandabyte
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