On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 16:36 -0700, Bob Blick wrote:
> Hi Oli,
> Just the one cat, sadly no longer on this plane. It takes about two
> weeks to train a cat to open doors from the outside. There's a patch of
> loop fastener fabric glued to the door, she has to grab it with her
> claws and pull the door open a bit, here's a video:
> http://bobblick.com/yumyum_hi.wmv
> There's a PIC and a hobby servo on each door and a photocell that gets
> polled when the door starts to open to figure out which side of the door
> the cat is on. The doors plug into an extra wire pair in the house phone
> wiring with a simple network protocol that talks to an interface on the
> linux box that is my home fileserver and is always on.

OMG Bob, that is AWESOME!!!

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