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Issue 129

From Issue #129
January 2005

Nov 26, 2004  By Chris McAvoy
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Resources for the print article.

“How I Feed My Cats with Linux” was published in the January 2005 issue of Linux Journal.

The Cat Feeder Home Page: kittens.lonelylion.com

The Serial Howto: www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.html

PySerial: pyserial.sourceforge.net

Parallax Web Site: www.parallax.com

The bstamp Site: sourceforge.net/projects/bstamp

Al Williams' RS1 Serial Adapter: www.al-williams.com/rs1.htm

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Cat feeder using off-the-shelf electronics

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Submitted by Michael Shiloh (not verified) on Sun, 12/26/2004 - 22:09.

Hi Chris,

I really loved your computer controlled cat feeder as described
in your article. I love the spirit of getting the computer to do
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