tinyAVR 0-Series versus Cats!
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- Опубліковано 29 січ 2022
- Bud is attacking my bookshelf! Join me as I try and build a device to deter this. I'm using Microchip's new Atmel tinyAVR 0-series line of microcontrollers. Let's program "on the metal" to setup sleep, interrupts and other peripherals!
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It's hilarious that Ben thinks he isn't yet a crazy cat man. 🙂
One day Bud had knocked every game off that shelf. With no world left to conquer he went into the kitchen. Woke up and found several cabinet doors open, looked like something from a ghost movie.
@@BenHeckHacks one day in the future he will hide in a cabinet, close the door behind himself, go for a 16 hour nap, untill you'll return, stressed & worn out worried, home from putting up hundereds of posters searching for a "lost" cat, he'll appear calm and well rested and ask: "What's for dinner, human?".
True story happened to me in a 60 square meter one bedroom appartment.
He doesn't knit them sweaters, instead he makes them electronics lol
Whoosh.
That's Crazy!!!😳
Cat driven engineering is the best engineering
Just subbed your channel. Where's the new content? It's been 4 years.
@@bobweiram6321 I'm pretty sure this guy is sick of constantly being asked why he doesn't upload anything every time he comments
@@diamondfailer11 Maybe I can make him sick enough to make more videos. LOL!
By far my favorite sort of content from you. I love the fact that you do the coding basically on the fly in real time rather than writing the code ahead of time and then explaining how it works. It makes it FAR easier to follow and understand.
kingbeetle isnt a real fan, he only watched 99% of the video and missed the part where ben said he types the code up on another pc beforehand to appear to be a GOD of coders
.......wait, nevermind, he doesnt do this, this is a lie, dont believe ben, he is trying to fool is, he really IS a god of coders and actually is coding on the fly
30:35
Ben: "Oh, so you think that cuteness will save you"
Bud: "meow"
6:12 "And then, I'll start knitting them sweaters.."
You're already building a cat-traption. You're headed that way. 😆
I love The Bud Heck Show!
It looks like you need cabinet doors... Oh, hey! They sell those at Menards!
They still should be made cat-proof, though. I've seen cats open fridges... Though that was on the Interwebs, so you never know how much help the owners gave them.
“They sell cabinet doors at Menard’s” is the most on-brand Ben Heck ball-busting I have ever seen.
Mreow? A new toy in the bookshelf? And it even is interactive?! wow! 😹
I never realised cats could be so deliberate at pulling things off shelves apparently for fun
It's so senseless it goes past annoyance and into humor. It's like he's working at a factory and it's just his job.
They say cats prove the world isn't flat. Because if the world really was flat cats would have knocked everything off of it already.
........you dont have a cat or 5, you learn this fast, not to mention the puck drop, they will push singular items off tables just to watch them fall!
ok, love the line 'like butter scraped over too much bread.' Brilliant!
If they had an Odo-meter they could have cut out multiple story arcs in ds9.
That one hurt my brain a little bit.
Hey I always enjoy your stuff and learn a lot but I feel like I learned an extra lot this time! Thanks for sharing 😌
I did a similar project a few years back, for a vibration triggered animation in an event installation. I didn't use sleep mode though - just a p-channel between the battery and VCC input to the board which the tilt switch pulled low. The MCU would then immediately also pull it low to stay awake. Advantage was zero power usage (aside from battery auto-discharge) while inactive, and a little less code - I had around 5 bytes left of flash when it was finished :)
Cats have a hearing range way larger than ours. They also have a very sensitive sense of smell. I'm sure he knew this was a trap long before you thought he would.
I did notice that he puts one paw on the shelf before pulling on the boxes. One thing you could do is put a strip of metallic tape on the shelf hooked-up to a capacitative touch sensor that would trigger the lights and a sweeping sound above our hearing range (they can hear ultrasounds produced by mice). That might keep him away... if he's not more interested in the boxes than anything else.
All he needs to do it put some double sided tape on the shelf. Cats hate sticky stuff.
@@swirlingabyss Trust me that doesn't work, stuff is covered in dust and cat hair in a day or two.
I think having the speaker to the side and no enclosure makes it very quiet. Also the frequency response at that frequency should be really poor. Probably better to use a compact buzzer and drive it at resonant frequency, which would make it a lot louder. On the other hand, if the sound of falling books did not scare the cat, I doubt any other sound will.
Agreed. Just not loud enough to effect him
my cat was also a needy bugger. I remember a few projects such as laptop repairs or breadboard circuits that screeched to a grinding halt while I wasted an inordinate amount of time looking for a part I thought I must have put down somewhere only to find after ransacking the house that the cat had scampered off with it when I wasn't looking.
This is far more compelling than the average movie mad scientist’s plan.
Trying to defeat a Cheddar Cat in Wisconsin does seem like a tall order though.
I have learned a lot from it. Thanks Ben
All the contraption did, was attract my cats. I've only seen them that interested in what was happening on the screen a few times before. Excellent cat TV, would recommend.
This would make a great series... Breaking Bud? Budbusters?
and then the flood of stoners click on the video thinking its about WEED......and they watch it anyway because its about cats and cats are awesome
Small tech. Check
Cute villain cat. Check
Bad guy wins. Check
Needs a sequel. Check
Ben, I rarely comment but these recent videos have been fantastic, I hope you keep making stuff like this
just found your channel. you are just about my type of crazy!
We have these devices that stick on the top of spray air cans. They let out a half-second blast of air when they detect movement. We use them to keep the cats off our laser printer, which they love to lay on because it's warm.
Very fun - enjoyed this
Electronics & cat projects.. 2 of my favorite things to watch on YT. 😅
Loved this video, Ben. More of this type please. I don't care if you use Bud as inspiration for project ideas. No animals were hurt during the production of this video :).
Congrats Ben ,you have successfully created a entertainment reward device to encourage Bud to really tear down your books ,,, a Bud teardown if you will ,,,hee hee hee ,, 😸👍
I solved this same problem with an off-the-shelf motion sensor/doorbell.
That part in Gremlins 2 is one of the funniest things I've ever seen, with the gremlins yelling, buy! Sell! Buybuy! Sell! Buy!
Gremlins 2 is great. I have it on laserdisc.
I had a feeling this wasn't going to work. Ben needs to make a gadget that sprays Bud. Cats hate to get sprayed. I think they don't like citrus too. Maybe something that triggers in stages. First the light, then the sound and then the squirt. Then you can train him to be afraid of the light and sound.
That sounds bad.
We have four cats and to stop them bringing in birds we fit them with early warning systems in the form of collars with bells, I've often thought about making a 21st century digital cat collar that has cartoon acceleration and braking noises linked to an accelerometer and a tiny laptop speaker ... ;)
It'd need to be set so as to not go off with every movement , just sudden extreme acceleration or stopping .. I'm not sure if an 6dof IMU knows it is moving or not?
A critical step in training your cat to not knock books off a shelf is to. . . train them to knock books off of your shelf. Excellent
On the down side, it didn't go to plan....
On the upside, switch the LEDs to a motor with a fuzzy ball on a bent springy wire, and now it's an interactive toy! 😻
What a great BUDing young project!
Needs a MOSCAT microcontroller and some CATpacitors to store electricity to shock him.
I have used piezo as vibration sensors. They work great and are the kind of thing we may have laying around.
The greatest rivalry going right now is Ben vs Bud.
I like how Ben builds a cool electronic contrivance, and the comment section is all cats. All internet folk have a touch of crazy cat person in them.
I like this channel better than whatever that show was you were on. I forget the name. This is much more in depth and funnier
Very informative thank you.
The thing I know most about cats is that whatever piece of modern technology we build to thwart them, they will still outwit us.
bud is like Awwwwwwww, he did all of that effort? for me? you should have, human.... but next time put better tasting tape
Love the quote from Gremlins 2. As soon as Ben started doing that voice, I instantly thought of the Brain Gremlin
bud is just like my cat kittious, in needy mode and won't leave anything alone
your design sheet so reminds me of the Forrest Mims engineers mini notebooks from my youth
Would be amazing the meeting between Ben the crazycat man, and 8bitguy the retrobright man! The universe will collide!
6:00 I adopted two kittens from a shelter that were from the same litter, and they do keep each other fairly entertained. I was just thinking about that before you said this. I assure you Bud would be much less prone to tearing things up on purpose.
Only thing he really damages is the back of my sectional. Which is against the wall, and it's old, so who cares? But yeah, pets have separation anxiety especially when you work from home. They don't understand why we can't pay attention to them all day.
@@BenHeckHacks You can never have too many cats 👍
@@BenHeckHacks True. We have two cats and a dog. They keep each other entertained to a degree. One is a stray that appeared at my flat door (so small I had to bottle feed for a week). She always follows me around and when I have to leave the house and come back home she lets me understand that she was not happy with me leaving her alone. Cats aren't always so aloof as people make them out to be.
@@hanznel8488 I think that last point is just down to not understanding behaviors. If someone grew up around only dogs the behavior of most cats is going (to them) to seem aloof and uncaring. If they grew up around only cats the behavior of most dogs is going to seem violent or aggressive.
It makes sense to try a noise that is out of our range of hearing. However, I think a cat would react stronger to a sudden sharp loud noise: train horn, big dog bark, cannon blast, etc. I can imagine a sound bank loaded with such blares, on a randomized selector. But then, that would just end up annoying you in a worse way. At least tumbled games are somewhat quiet. Evil genius Bud already knew this, as he watched you with covert satisfaction, laboring away on what would inevitably become his plaything.
0-1 for the Cat :-) Thank you for the video! I enjoyed the creativ project, and the humor :-) Let's see the 2nd round
First time shocked, second time interested, third to xx time enjoying that it is waking up the feeding guy.. my forecast five minutes in.
Ben you are a crazy cat man just like me. The first stage is denial.
I believe the core problem is your aversion to applying direct current to the cat.
lol at the "I'm all out of IO" song
Bud! Nice hiss 👍
Bud is slowly taking over this channel. "what can I make him do next?"
Is there some reason to use SPI over I2C when all one needs is clock and data? Perhaps a refresh rate consideration?
".....give him a little bit of a shock"
Well.... there's a deterrent idea....
Love Bud content! teach Bud how to solder or something.
Yeah the newer tiny-0 and tiny-1 series are more in stock than the zoomer’s favourite mega368p and such. Though I program my UPDI micros using a CH340G-based bit-banger. Works fine, I promise!
Also the mega4808 and such are decent looking too, the xx09 series have plenty of pins.
Does using int x rather than uint8_t x for the for loops slow down the x++ operation and waste a byte of RAM or does the compiler optimise it to an 8 bit value?
"Ah, human. You are making me a new toy. Gooood, goood."
40:24 Ben Heck tells Bud it's ok to pull his books down.
Bud - "I already knew that."
Idle curiosity:
Does your cat get to go out? Mine blow off their energy doing whatever they do outside and come in to sleep, eat, and play with me if they can be bothered.
Oh Ben, you're already crazy cat man
I luv Bud.
Great video and idea :D. I have simillar problem with cats but found great solution! Aluminium foil isn't pretty but works wonders :) Tape or put it where you need and cat won't touch it
Water spray bottle are the only thing that deters my cat, maybe rig up a pump with a mist nozzle. Obviously you don't want to wet the books but a 1/4 second fine mist blast should do the trick without ruining the stuff on the bookshelf.
I have that Supercade book as well, great book. Supercade v.2 Book is coming soon. 👍
A second cat and sweaters - nothing wrong with that. Bud needs a buddy!
Cats train humans to do the strangest things! Methinks the force is strong with this one LOL. Thanks Ben.
You really seen to be more upbeat and positive towards these projects and videos the last couple of months. I hope you're doing well.
16:33 "Oh Ben let me see if I'm getting this straight. You're ignoring your cat to work on a device that will help you ignore your cat."
Hey Ben I appreciated the Star Trek Deep Space 9 joke
I've noticed that cats seem to want to fight with stepper motors in micro step. Ref. UA-cam videos were cats are attacking printers or cd drives
You know Ben, sometimes you need to give the cat in a far corner some catnip or , try some tweeter that goes up to 65khz and it should work at some frequency and no sleepmode, you wont hear it.
Probably Bud has been reading about Feng-shui and it's trying to acommodate the books in a more energy-wise location.
Your cat commentary always cracks me up. Bud! No!
You could make the speaker make some kind of hissing noise, like air coming from a nozzle. If I run anything related to compressed air (even open the air duster just a tiny bit) my cats get really scared and run away immediately. I think it has to do with the hissing noise snakes make or something but I'm not sure
Cats hiss as a threat display, if you can't see the cat that hissed at you, you don't know if you can take him so run away is the only good response. Recordings of real cat hisses might work pretty well, recording them is it's own project.
@@brocktechnology why not use a can of compressed air as your source 😅
Great intro to the MCU's...cheers.
Might be a useful project for under the hood of your car to deter wire eating rodents.
Use a sealed lead acid battery for power and a few of your wobbly pipe cleaners radiating from the enclosure.
On today's episode of Ben outsmarts his cat....
shouldn't variable changed inside ISR and globally as well be volatile?
I have 10 cats, it's not the number of the kitties which decides craziness, it is merely if you have cats :D
10 cats is past craziness.
Whilst Bud wins the battles, Ben plans the all out end to the war >
Oh those TP4056... the hole placement is so weird on those. I have a couple of them, but they are not suitable for PCBs, because their holes aren't 2.54mm (multiplied by whatever distance + padding) apart. Also, if you get the one with BAT and OUT (and IN), the BAT pins should not be used to drive any circuit, because the mosfet onboard won't turn on OUT, which really sucks if you want a cheap lithium protection circuit + charger.
Have you considered that it is not that it did not work but that Bud is just THAT good?
Ben is soon to get a visit form the ASPCB, "American Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Buds". We tried the tape thing for my daughter's cats and found one of them has a tape licking fetish :)
I have a cat that got really mad when I imitated the sound of a Jawa. I was able to have him get off the counter from afar by making that noise. However, he got used to it after several times.
I miss sot 6 pin package for these new attinys
So who could the new impression be? Great Scott? LGR?
"Considerizations" is now a new word!
How about a block of c4, incognito pretending tobe a book, and a cat hair sensor attached to it?
This is a job for a raspberry pi using machine vision to detect when the cat is on the shelf. The era of Embedded GPUs is over, but a raspberry pi 4 can run a minimal YOLO model at 2fps. It wouldn't differentiate when the cat was not pulling the books out. YOLO is used all the time for detecting animals.
Ben! Can you put a cheap mp3 player board and trigger some audio message and a rumble motor?
Short of shock pads, the only thing I have had success with, for deterring cats is the IR sensors that sprays canned air (making a loud hissing noise). There is a commercial product, but I bet you could whip up your own version. Alternatively, maybe fix your speaker to make a loud hissing noise.
That vibration sensor looks like a tilt switch for a micro pinball machine.
Don't worry. With all this cat-content you are already a crazy cat person.
Tiny 202?! Man I'm outdated, need to close the gap ASAP! I was thinking Microchip gonna kill the ATMEL line, I'm glad they didn't
In my own testing cats do not really care about the high pitched noises. They hear them and promptly ignore them. I had a 20Khz tone running at full volume and my cats couldn't care less. I assume it was loud, because it pegged the mic "vu's" on my laptop. They did take interest in a descending tone from 20Khz to a few hundred hz. It just seemed to be curiosity rather than any annoyance.
Thanks for the video. I think its the best video for explaining the design process of a simple circuit/iot project.
But Bud is the star in this one.
Tsk tsk, Ben. Bud is trying to tell you that he wants you to teach him how to read. Then he will be able to entertain himself instead of knocking your books down. :3
Bud is just trying to read a book and play a game lol
Dude, Menards should totally give you a sponsorship deal. Every month or so they send you a ball cap, polo shirt, or something to wear in your video, along with a big ol’ box of their current crappy gadgets for you to play with. I guarantee they’ve sold a bunch of shhhtuff because of people watching you dismember their gadgets, seriously!! 😎👍❤️