Our canine friends have been at our side for millennia, their prehistoric wolf ancestors evolving alongside us into the breeds we know today. But astoundingly until now no dog has been Wi-Fi enabled, at least according to [Entropy], whose dog [Kaya] now sports a colourful Wi-Fi enabled collar.
Light-up dog collars and harnesses have been with us for a while, and serve the very useful purpose of protecting the animals from accidents by making them visible at night, but [Kaya]’s colar was a particularly disappointing example. Its single light and lacklustre optical fibre coupled with disappointing battery life left much to be desired, so when it broke there was ample excuse to upgrade it. In went a strip of addressable LEDs and an ESP32 module, along with an 18650 lithium-ion cell. We’re a bit unsure whether lights can be controlled from a mobile phone, but perhaps the most significant benefit lies elsewhere. The Wi-Fi hotspot from the ESP32 serves as a beacon to find [Kaya] within a short distance should she wander off, which as any dog owner will tell you can be a boon when they’re investigating some fascinating new smell and ignoring your calls. You can see her modelling the collar in the video below the break.
Canine hacks appear on these pages from time to time. One of our favourites is this not very successful but highly amusing remote controlled dog.
She doesn’t look very happy :-D
“…so, you’ve put The Collar on me, are we going out or what?”
“Get this thing off of me…”
electro-teach that dog and give the remote to a cat :)
That sounds like full-on Tom and Jerry level mischief there!
Poor dog :(
Joke’s on you: cats may dislike dogs, but they despise exertion even more: unless there’s food in it for them, a cat couldn’t be bothered to push a button. Even then, cats would prefer you push the button so they don’t have to.
Credentials: I’m permitted to reside in the abode of two felines and am a servant to their whims.
When you naturally have 10 daggers on your front paws that’s all the control you need.
Now she can access the Dogbert Twitter channel
Not the first wifi dog, IE THE DENIAL OF SERVICE DOG! and war kitteh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMNSvHswljM
Came to say exactly this :D
Caption for the dog – “My name is Doug……I do not like the cone of shame”
(Up movie)
A wifi hotspot to find your dog is pretty smart. So smart, drug dealers (and probably spies) have used similar methods for deaddrops. The write-up I’m recalling detailed the evolution of their discovery mechanisms as police learned to start looking for the access points and so on.
That could be fun to add:
Wardriving mode (wifi sniffing dog :D ) – the color changes on number of secure networks near dog
Biohacking a Dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KrNaFFhhw0
> until now no dog has been Wi-Fi enabled
Well that’s just false.