Sad Cat Project - Vincent La Vigna

Laser turret? Robot car? An animal for your cat to chase and hunt?

why not combine them all?

My Sad Cat Fixer is an attempt at making the fundamental things cat love into one toy and all separately activatable as well as activatable all at once using just one remote.

This Project is a 2 mode car/laser turret. mode 1 is just a stationary turret mounted on the car as seen in the design drawing. Mode 2 moves the car creating something for the cat to chase, however you have the ability to keep both modes on at the same time making it a moving laser giving the cat more than one thing to catch or chase.

Breadboard

Arduino

Breadboard Wires

Infrared Remote and Receiver

Servo Motor

1k Resistor

Laser

Grab your bread board and Arduino and setup up wires exactly like this.

Grab the IR sensor(the smaller component on the bread board) and place it as follows

Place the IR remote and just keep it there, you will need it later!

For this step you are going to need to get a Micro Servo, LED, and a 1k Ohm Resistor.

Connect the LED and Micro Servo as shown in the photo above.

The photo above is the final look at the circuit make sure all things are in the right

Code is fully functional but with some error/inconvenience. Firstly, the servo cannot keep spinning continuously in the same direction so it would technically go back and forth in real life if built. Second, I could not keep the servo spinning forever, it will stop after two 360's. This is problematic because the idea was to keep it going until pressing the power button to stop the servo, however I could not figure out how to make it do this.