The housing has been redesigned, it has been made larger and with an additional tube for the food dispensing has been incorporated to provide the supplement cartridges with more space so that they can be placed above the food bowl. Ideally, we will have four supplement cartridges each being 30 mL, the food storage compartment is to hold 3lb to 5lb. The food dispensing mechanism has begun its initial testing, the motor and was attached to the spinning wheel that will dispense the food. A shaft Insert will be customized to fit the motor shaft and the cylinder in the rotating star. The solenoid valve has been connected, but not yet been tested. The pump is capable of dispensing all of the fluid out of the cartridge, the next thing we will be working on is the rate at which the fluid is dispensed. The control system had been connected and the button can now be used as input to the system. Four buttons are available, each of the four buttons representing an option. The display is capable of displaying the option selected on the screen as A, B, C or D. Buttons will activate a preset, a fixed amount of weight for a pet and thus a certain rotation for a motor, to give us a desirable effect of being able to control a quantity.

Sandy Moreno, Project X: Pet feeder