The notes accompanying the original video told about the device in more detail -- computer interface, proximity sensors to keep ol' Jerry out of the mechanism, motors, gears, transmissions, transducers for positions and angles, limit switches. Look at all the very nice machining.
As a a SWAG, that thing cost several thousand to build. That's not even counting the engineering time.
So, how much are you willing to pay for a hotcake?
Sadly, Jerry only used it a few times.
I did see something along the same lines in a PetSmart. You dumped a bucket of tennis balls in the hopper and it would fire them out. The dogs could drop them back in the hopper. I heard most dogs soon figured out they could just go out and sit where the balls were coming down and catch them.
The Food-Giver was generally the one who had to go around and pick them up.
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that ones been around for awhile it's still great. .
A friend of the family when I was in high school who was very into robotics was working on an optical bullet sorter for the army at the time and he decided to calibrate the program using something a little more tame. Costco bags of M&Ms were sorted by category (color) into little hoppers and the blue ones were shot across the room into the trash can. It was entertaining to watch then, and it still would be entertaining to watch now.
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can they make something like that for the two legged kids?? Now that I would be top dollar for. (Side note: my two year old is playing with the cans in the cabinet..gtg!)
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I bet that little guy would do that all day.
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