Luckily , my cat was always too dumb to make the connection between the faucet and fresh water , so she ’s made do thus far with just sip from her water dish . But I ’ve heard that once kitties taste from the pat , they never want to go back . For running water hook Arabian tea , MAKE contributor tsruzik has make a pretty ingenious automatic computed axial tomography faucet using an IR sensor and some tube .
The hack requires a little plumbery get it on how and some circuitry work , which makes it more or less hard than your normal DIY labor . To help you and your pets out , Tsruzik has put together some kit for order . Prices range from $ 10 to $ 125 .
The goal product works a fate like those sinks that automatically plow on when you waive your hands under them — except instead of detecting men , it detects cats . Tsruzik has even project in an optional “ people sensor ” so that the faucet wo n’t run every time a person walks by . see out the video to see some precious kittie drinking natural action :
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