Automatic Martini Dispenser

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I was looking for jobs in the summer of 2011 and came across an awesome sounding one for a product development company called Synapse. I was attempting to find a way to stand out from the other applicants when I read the last line of the job description. They wanted someone who had a personal martini making robot. The requirement was a joke but a challenge. What other applicant would actually make a robotic martini maker? I wanted to apply for the job quickly so my build needed to be fast utilizing components that I had laying around. Luckily, I had pretty much everything I needed.

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Twittering Catfood Dispenser

In 2009, my wife and I adopted an overweight cat named Nermal. The Humane Society was concerned that she didn’t know when to stop eating so instructed us to feed her 1/3 a cup of dry cat food twice a day. I tried feeding her when I woke up and got back from work. Nermal got so hungry that she’d wake us up in the middle of the night, hours before her regular feeding time. It was also hard to keep her on the diet when we were out of town. We’d end up overfeeding her in fear that she would eat everything in one sitting. I hoped technology could solve the problem in the form of an automatic cat food dispenser.

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