Recently my girlfriend was gifted with one "puppy toy" for her cat, this small device looks like a small mice, and use two AAA cells, and fully rubber design, match with one collar for the pet, so when the pet reach the toy it start to bounce and vibrating, so that catch the attention of the cat, and start play with the gizmo.
Excellent toy, but the damn cat "kill" it, we hear "Whackkk...mauuuuuuuuuuu" and the cat run away like following the devil... (I suspect the cat bite it and catch some electricity) and the mice not work any more (change several cells to test it), and a close look to the collar reveals that was made with one permanent magnet in it.
The mice inside look like one big relay, all melted on resin or epoxi stuff dice, so nothing to test or even look at. The bottom side have one some kind of solenoid (jumping device maybe?) and the head have one excentric rotor little motorized (vibrating device maybe?). So the task asigned was... ???
yeah! you guess it...
How the hell can I "bring back to life" the mice... (Like "The green mile" perhaps) or replace the whole controller box with one picaxed new gizmo????
Certainly I feel doomed. But she don't understand how I can spend too much time buildings things (useless, to her perception) and I can't "fix" that cute Mice toy...
So IF anyone have one nice idea about HOW... PLEASE tell me.
FACTS & GUESS:
1).- I guess the mice "read" collar with one Hall effect sensor. (or maybe one coil?)
2).- The solenoid and rotor works perfectly with 2.4v to 3v.
3).- One P08 maybe beat the task...
4).- ???????? agggghhhhhhh dooooommmmmm doom doom...
...---... (mayday, s.o.s, HELP !!!!)
Edited by - rookie on 03/09/2007 14:01:33
Excellent toy, but the damn cat "kill" it, we hear "Whackkk...mauuuuuuuuuuu" and the cat run away like following the devil... (I suspect the cat bite it and catch some electricity) and the mice not work any more (change several cells to test it), and a close look to the collar reveals that was made with one permanent magnet in it.
The mice inside look like one big relay, all melted on resin or epoxi stuff dice, so nothing to test or even look at. The bottom side have one some kind of solenoid (jumping device maybe?) and the head have one excentric rotor little motorized (vibrating device maybe?). So the task asigned was... ???
yeah! you guess it...
How the hell can I "bring back to life" the mice... (Like "The green mile" perhaps) or replace the whole controller box with one picaxed new gizmo????
Certainly I feel doomed. But she don't understand how I can spend too much time buildings things (useless, to her perception) and I can't "fix" that cute Mice toy...
So IF anyone have one nice idea about HOW... PLEASE tell me.
FACTS & GUESS:
1).- I guess the mice "read" collar with one Hall effect sensor. (or maybe one coil?)
2).- The solenoid and rotor works perfectly with 2.4v to 3v.
3).- One P08 maybe beat the task...
4).- ???????? agggghhhhhhh dooooommmmmm doom doom...
...---... (mayday, s.o.s, HELP !!!!)
Edited by - rookie on 03/09/2007 14:01:33