Finding a rabbit with a PICAXE...

[Rickharris]

mmm Audio - I once tried to build a mosquito tracker - designed to show you where the blighter was so you could go on a search and kill mission.

I found it very hard to get even a general direction in real time. Although that was pre-picaxe days.

Of course with an audio device we are all fitted with our own detectors (ears) all you need to do is enhance the separation and increase the sensitivity a bit.

Drivel? world shattering developments have been the product of brainstorming sessions! <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>

Edited by - rickharris on 11/02/2007 12:32:50

Edited by - rickharris on 11/02/2007 15:25:22

 

[Dippy]

&quot;Drivel? world shattering developments have been to product of brainstorming sessions!&quot;

Grammar?

 

[hippy]

I'm sure we can make seven pages

How about fattening Nesbit up so much he's simply impossible to miss ?

 

[Jeremy Leach]

I do wonder if this time could have been spent training Nesbit to respond to &quot;Where are you?&quot;

&quot;Over here&quot; ....

 

[Dippy]

Ah, much better grammar Rick.
Well edited!

 

[demonicpicaxeguy]

here's a more phycological idea use the picaxe to make a sound that the rabbit dislikes then position transudcers or speakers around the perimeter of garden then when you want to locate said rabbit push a button picaxe will start the sound and said bunny wabbit will come running/hopping away from the sound...
you'll probably find it higher up in his hearing range...

 

[Jeremy Leach]

Would it need two piezos to simulate both barrels of the shotgun?

 

[moxhamj]

How about we give Nesbit some medical technetium? As Borat would say; &quot;is little bit radioactive&quot;, but it is ok for humans in small doses so it should be ok for rabbits. Then use a series of picaxe driven geiger counters to detect where he is.

Or you could just use one of those rabbit cages with no bottom on it and move the cage around to wherever the long grass is.

 

[demonicpicaxeguy]

contact a taxidermist

 

[Dippy]

You could transfer some genes from a Glow Worm and spot her in the dark.

Or, you could transfer the jeans from a hippy and be able to smell her from a 100 yards... day and night!

 

[hippy]

Would love to help, but it's all tie-dye or cheese cloth ( or both ) in my wardrobe

Moving into the company's new offices a few years ago, and few have seen this ...

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/the.happy.hippy/picaxe/hippy.gif

Edited by - hippy on 11/02/2007 23:52:35

 

[Dippy]

Oh sorry hippy, I was meaning a 'Neil'-type hippy.

Yeah, done it! Bored now.

Edited by - Dippy on 12/02/2007 00:12:35

 

[twinsen]

How about an infra red camera overlooking the garden attatched to a display so you can see any heat sources in the garden including your nesbit.

Maybe you could have a panning camera using the picaxe to do the panning controls and then have a monitor for your display.

BIG RABBIT IS WATCHING YOU

 

[flyingnunrt]

Got a great idea.
A couple of helium filled ballons tied to the rabbits tail with some string and a fishing lure attached just below the ballons so that it will snag the top wire of the fence when she tries to escape.
The hooks could be configured so that a short on the wire will complete a circuit to the picaxe and trigger the alarm.
Done.

 

[flyingnunrt]

No good?
Ok.
How about you dig a moat around the yard and use the picaxe to turn on the tap to keep the water level up.

 

[demonicpicaxeguy]

get a can of dy mark and spray rabbit bright yellow

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Has this thread died? It looked set to run into 3 figures or has Nesbit run away from home at the prospect of being strapped up with a pile of Picaxe gear?

 

 

[inglewoodpete]

That'll be 97

 

[demonicpicaxeguy]

no i think people are just running out of ideas... and that 98

 

[Brietech]

oh! I'm doing something similar to this for a senior design class! Strap a neodymium magnet to the bunny's underside, via elastic or something similar. Then, bury copper wire pickup coils in your yard, maybe a few feet in diameter, each with some sort of sensor (an 08M doing readadc would work fine). You can actively sense which loop the bunny just transitioned over, and then have some sort of network to send it all back to a display for you. It should give you a &quot;grid&quot; for your yard with the current position of the bunny reporting back to you.

 

[moxhamj]

That's a great idea except that going back to the original post the yard is said to be 60 by 40 metres. So if the coils are 1 metre round that is 2400 coils - should be possible to do in an afternoon. I suppose while digging in the coils it would be possible to remove the shrubbery which is hiding Nesbit in the first place. An ocular method of detection might then be in order!

Edited by - Dr_Acula on 14/02/2007 06:16:17

 

[Brietech]

I suppose one could just hire a neighborhood child for a few dollars to just sit there with binoculars and track the rabbit.

 

[gordonpurdy]

why don't you put a collar on the wabbit and tie it up with a bit of string of the correct length to keep it away from the fence?

 

[inglewoodpete]

Burying coils of wire may not be such a good idea. We're discussing a rabbit here.

If the bunny is wearing one of the neo-whatsit magnets, she might be found stuck to a fencepost! Hey, there's another idea...

 

[james1]

Why don't you make a picaxe buggy to fit on the rabbit. Then it could automaticly turn around when the rabbit goes to close to the fence. Maby have a low powered transmitter on the fence that the picaxe pick up and activate the buggy. You could also have a controler to drive the rabbit around the yard.

Although it might be easies to turn your rabbit into a dalek. (as long as Dr. who doesn't find out)<img src="wink.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle><img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>

Edited by - darthtader on 16/02/2007 05:14:56

Edited by - darthtader on 16/02/2007 05:15:36