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Hi all! Last night was the first test run of my DIY hamster wheel pedometer. It uses a Raspberry Pi Pico W (tiny little computer board with Wi-Fi) and a magnet sensor (KY-003). Oh and the most important ingredient is my hamster Marcel, who I believe @theblondemo introduced here a couple days ago.
Here's the janky duct-taped setup
That's a Petsathome ~29cm wheel (28.5cm inside diameter), which has plenty of olive oil in the bearing because it was making a racket... anyway
I thought I'd build up suspense for the test results from the first night..
22.85km!! That's like 14.2 miles! The Wikipedia page for robo's says 6 miles (with a citation that doesn't really go anywhere so that's dodgy) so I'm very proud of my little athlete.
All the code is open-source over at https://github.com/possibly-not/hamptometer if you happen to be a computer science nerd like me
Currently working on making it look nicer plus adding more statistics (i.e speed, and times active). I've already added a spinning robo image.
Here's the janky duct-taped setup
That's a Petsathome ~29cm wheel (28.5cm inside diameter), which has plenty of olive oil in the bearing because it was making a racket... anyway
I thought I'd build up suspense for the test results from the first night..
22.85km!! That's like 14.2 miles! The Wikipedia page for robo's says 6 miles (with a citation that doesn't really go anywhere so that's dodgy) so I'm very proud of my little athlete.
All the code is open-source over at https://github.com/possibly-not/hamptometer if you happen to be a computer science nerd like me
Currently working on making it look nicer plus adding more statistics (i.e speed, and times active). I've already added a spinning robo image.
Or even better, to power a light bulb? I do remember someone on youtube many years ago did something like that I think.
If only hamsters were in charge of transport!