PetCare

Introduction
Demo
Equipment
Circuit Diagram
Features
Get started
Version control
License
Acknowledgement
Contact us
Developer Log

Introduction

This project is the course design of UofG ENG 5220 Realtime Embedded Programing. In this course, we are the team 7.

When pets-owners leave home for a long time, feeding pets with food and water is a big problem. So we make an automatic pet feeder to help people feed their pets when they are busy. The design used raspberry PI to make an automatic feeder, real-time monitoring of pet movement and food. Upload the feeding records to aliyun cloud server. This project can realize intelligent food and water feeding, protecting the health of pets.

Demo

Food system

Water system

system testing

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Equipment

Raspberry Pi 3B+
Ultrasonic sensor (HC-SR04)
Weight sensor (HX711)
Step motor (28BYJ-48)
Water sensor
Water pump

Circuit Diagram

Features

This project uses raspberry PI to make an automatic pet-care system, which has a feeder with real-time monitoring of pet movement and food weight, a water feeder, and transfer the data of feeding activities to aliyun cloud server.

In this system, the ultrasonic sensor detects the distance to the pet, and the feeder starts working when the pet is close. The weight sensor detects the weight of the food in the bowl. When the food weight is less than threshold, the motor starts to rotate the baffle 90 degrees to replenish the food. When the food weight is greater than threshold, the motor rotates backward. User can change the weight threshold through app.

The water sensor detects the level of water in the container. When the water level is less than the setting height, start the water pump to draw water from the water storage tank and add it to the water feeding container. The water pump runs for 1 second.

Following link to the UML documentation:

Get Started

The default branch of this repository is main, which contains the latest stable version of the project.

This is an example of how to list things you need to use the software and how to install them.

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Git

sudo apt-get update && upgrade

sudo apt-get install git-core

Cmake
```
sudo apt-get install cmake 
```

pigpio

git clone https://github.com/joan2937/pigpio

cd pigpio

sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade

make
sudo make install

sudo pigpiod

Clone the project

git clone https://github.com/koinzh/PetCare.git

Navigate to the project folder
```
cd PetCare/codes
```
```
mkdir build
```
```
cd build
```
Link the required files and libraries using CMake
```
cmake ..
```
Build the CMake project
```
make
```
Run application
```
sudo ./PetCare
```

License

MIT license

Version control

check the repository to see the avilabe version

Acknowledgement

Contact us

Yutong Wang https://github.com/BigWYT
Bowen Ren https://github.com/midori-jojo
Zhiyu Ren https://github.com/rasethna
Xiaoyu Zhang https://github.com/koinzh
Project Link: https://github.com/koinzh/PetCare
TikTok Link: https://www.tiktok.com/@smartpetcaresyste?_t=8kk3llkyQGP&_r=1

Developer Log