My favorite things in life are cats 🐈, computers 🖥 and crappy ideas 💩, so I decided to combine all three and make an IoT Kitty Litter Box using a Raspberry Pi and JavaScript! If you have ever wanted to get build your own IoT project, but didn’t know how to start, then this is the project for you. Turns out that IoT and JS is awesome!
This project will help track your feline friend’s health by measuring its weight every time it sets foot on the litter tray, and monitors its urination patterns. The equipment can be connected to a companion smartphone app that displays the relevant data in an easy-to-understand graph format, so that cat parents can quickly spot symptoms of unusual weight loss.
Together, we will go through how I setup my IoT Litter Box from start to finish. Including how to setup Node.js on a Raspberry Pi and how to connect sensors to a Raspberry Pi and how to read the sensor inputs with Node.js.
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Project Link
https://joekarlsson.github.io/iot-kitty-litter-box-frontend/
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https://github.com/JoeKarlsson/iot-kitty-litter-box
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