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Scott Metoyer programmer from the California town of Corona had a problem: In the house of his Wohngemeinschaft marodierte a mouse. And Metoyer is on animals, to traditional set up traps.

Luckily he had just created a new programmer bought toys that help with this problem was: The Open-source Arduino platform combines a microcontroller with a programming environment that makes it quite simple, physical objects to control - for example mousetrap.

Metoyer took a couple of Tupperware boxes, a wooden stick and a strip of aluminum foil as a timer. If the Arduino controller, a movement on the release (under the aufgebockt, half-open box in front of the cheese), and he pulls the stick away, the box goes down, the mouse is caught.

An hour tinkered
Metoyer at the event in 30 minutes, he programmed the control software.

Although the trap is working well (see video above), she has not used as Metoyer said: "I have not caught the mouse. Some of my roommates are not as animals as I do, and I have a week a few traditional mousetrap seen in the house. I'm afraid someone has the poor animal so unfortunately caught - I have the mouse is never seen again. "

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