On 16/04/18 18:11, Jan Panteltje wrote:
> On a sunny day (Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:54:08 -0700 (PDT)) it happened
> spuorgelgoog@gowanhill.com wrote in
> :
>
>> On Saturday, 14 April 2018 23:17:56 UTC+1, John H. Guillory  wrote:
>>>   MG> - mousetraps?
>>>         What brand home automation Mouse Traps do you use, and are they
>>> expensive?  Does it tell you when they've tripped, and if they've caught =
>> a
>>> mouse?  That sounds like an interesting idea!
>>
>> Rentokil ones are about £1300 each
>>
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-39058276/mouse-trap-triggers-intern=
>> et-alerts
>
> That is very very expensive.
> Go to youtube.com , search for 'bucket mouse trap'
> Put a piece of metal and a microswitch at the bottom of the bucket,
> connect to raspberry GPIO,
> write some simple script to test the switch and send data with netcat
anywhere.
> Alarm beeper on a GPIO out if must be.
> < 10$ IF you already have a raspi.
>
I thought the idea of the bit of metal at the bottom was it would be
connected to several killervolts...


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