[TAG] Linux cat feeder

[mso@oz.net]

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7403
Chris McAvoy describes his Linux-based cat feeder.  You click on a web
link (so you can feed kitty remotely!), the Python program sends a
character on the serial port, a BASIC program on a microcontroller turns
the paddles on his gizmo, and the gizmo delivers a fish to the hungry
feline.

Several of the Slashdot comments are worthy of the Linux Laundrette:

http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139467&cid=11673596
How the Microsoft cat feeder differs from the open-source version.  (PHPgawd)

http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139467&cid=11673772
The Real Man's UNIX cat feeder, a cron entry:  (Coryoth)
``
30 9,18 * * * cat /food > /dev/cat
''


http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139467&cid=11673831
A self-cleaning litter box, designed and programmed on a Linux system. 
(MsWillow)


http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139467&cid=11673505
``
$ cat "food in tin cans"
cat: cannot open food in tin cans
''