{"id":551,"date":"2011-12-31T19:52:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T00:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/?p=551"},"modified":"2011-12-31T19:52:34","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T00:52:34","slug":"the-chase-a-mouse-cat-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/the-chase-a-mouse-cat-toy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chase-A-Mouse Cat Toy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love Cats! I have three of them and I love playing with the youngest one, Jayfet. This week&#8217;s hack is all about fun with the Cats! The idea for this came to me one day a month or so back and I decided that it was time to build it.<\/p>\n<p>I used an electric motor from a Roomba robot which shouldn&#8217;t surprise folks too much as I use a lot of Roomba stuff in my hacks. After a few hours of tinkering I came up with something that works as I had envisioned. The motor moves a string tied in a loop with a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fisherman's_knot\" target=\"_blank\">Fisherman&#8217;s knot<\/a> between two pulleys. A toy mouse is tied to the string which zips back and forth enticing kitteh to &#8220;chase-a-mouse&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>Jayfet is a great &#8220;beta tester&#8221; for my Cat toys. He&#8217;s always willing to try things out and this project is no exception. <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the video, Happy New Year and&#8230;<br \/>\nKeep on hackin!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/?attachment_id=552\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-552\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/chase-a-mouse.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"chase a mouse\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-552\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/chase-a-mouse.jpg 800w, http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/chase-a-mouse-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/chase-a-mouse-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2q6GtA6j7HE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Cats! I have three of them and I love playing with the youngest one, Jayfet. This week&#8217;s hack is all about fun with the Cats! The idea for this came to me one day a month or so &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/the-chase-a-mouse-cat-toy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}