Now, to make this robot, we would need a few cardboard cartons. We need to make two parts of it:
- A food dispenser
- A collecting bowl with a force sensor
First, let's see how the dispenser has to be made. You need to follow these steps:
- Take a medium-sized carton that can carry up to about four and a half pounds of pet food.
- Then, go ahead and make a small cutout.
- This cutout should be big enough to dispense food but not so big that a lot of food comes out of it at once.
- Now, once that is done, you need to make a lid that covers that through-hole.
- This lid should be slightly bigger than the through-hole itself.
- Install the lid over the shaft of the motor.
- Fix the motor on to the cardboard, as shown in the following ...