04-11-2026 18:00 via Popular Science

Man builds robotic cat feeder that senses when dish is empty

Pet owners can pick from any number of automatic cat feeders at this point, and even shell out hundreds of dollars for a particularly fancy kit. But at the end of the day, most of them are simply a scooper that dumps out premeasured amounts of feline food based on an internal timer.Jason Winfield, a New Zealand-based YouTuber and frequent traveler, wanted a slightly more advanced option: a robotic cat feeder that distributes a predetermined amount of food for his two pals, and also senses when t
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