{"id":1,"date":"2017-12-06T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T00:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.burningimage.net\/cattrack\/?p=1"},"modified":"2023-07-22T07:56:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T06:56:57","slug":"whats-cattrack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.burningimage.net\/cattrack\/whats-cattrack\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s CatTrack?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unsatisfied with the GPS trackers available on the market, I decided to design my own. \u00a0This site follows my\u00a0component-level design and build of an ultra-low-power wireless cat tracker.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A few years ago we got some cats – Buttons and Turnip! \u00a0Buttons is the big tabby cat and that’s Turnip, below.<\/p>\n

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I would imagine that every cat-owning Engineer has at one point or another wondered about either buying or making a tracker for their cat so they can see what he or she gets up to after\u00a0they jump over the garden wall.<\/p>\n

Turnip isn’t like most cats. \u00a0There’s no need to make or buy a tracker for her because she hasn’t left the garden in 3 years. \u00a0Well, she did end up in next door’s garden once, but I got the impression from the noises she was making that it was incompetence that caused her to end up there, rather than a desire to be more than 10 feet away from her bed.<\/p>\n

Buttons however, would benefit from a tracker. \u00a0Although he doesn’t disappear for days at a time like some cats, he is often nowhere to be seen, only to turn up a few hours later covered in cobwebs or some other kind of grime.<\/p>\n

As you can read in my\u00a0About Me<\/a>\u00a0page, I’ve got a fair bit of experience with electronic\u00a0design. \u00a0 It’s been my job for the last 10 years. \u00a0None of the cat trackers on the market fitted my needs (as I’ll explain in a separate post) so I decided to design and build one that’s much better than anything you can buy! (hopefully…)<\/p>\n

I’ll be doing a component-level design, from schematics, through PCB design and ultimately casing it all up in a case appropriate for Buttons to carry around with him. \u00a0I’m sure there will be second revision too, to mop up all my cock-ups from the first revision!<\/p>\n

This blog is partly a way to force myself to finish the project. \u00a0I wouldn’t want the 3 people reading this to be disappointed would I!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unsatisfied with the GPS trackers available on the market, I decided to design my own. \u00a0This site follows my\u00a0component-level design and build of an ultra-low-power wireless cat tracker. A few years ago we got some cats – Buttons and Turnip! \u00a0Buttons is the big tabby cat and that’s Turnip, below. I would imagine that every […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52,55,56,17,46,12],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts","tag-cat","tag-cattrack","tag-collar","tag-gps","tag-tracker","tag-wireless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burningimage.net\/cattrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burningimage.net\/cattrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burningimage.net\/cattrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burningimage.net\/cattrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burningimage.net\/cattrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.burningimage.net\/cattrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/www.burningimage.net\/cattrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burningimage.net\/cattrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burningimage.net\/cattrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burningimage.net\/cattrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burningimage.net\/cattrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}