Toby the dog gets feeds by tweet

Nat Morris and Toby

How clever but Toby should needs more accompany.

Anyone can feed Toby and only be fed once every 30-45 minutes between 9 am to 9pm GMT. 

tweet "@feedtoby feed"

IT consultant Nat spends a lot of time working away from home and isn’t always able to feed Border Terrier Toby by hand.

But using his new invention he is able to send his dog a treat from anywhere in the world.Nat said: ‘Toby absolutely loves it. At first he didn’t know what was going on.‘Now he sits underneath, wagging his tail and waiting for the treats to drop.’Nat loads up the feeder with crushed dog biscuits - but not too much in case four-year-old Toby gets too many messages.When a comment is received the mechanism drops a helping of crushed up dog biscuits out of the tube.

And Nat has even rigged up an online camera so he can see Toby enjoying the food at his home in Milford Haven, West Wales.Nat is even considering patenting his system.But one problem is that friends and family have been amazed with the ‘Tweet treat’ dispenser.

And they have been joining in to send Tweets to Toby - so Nat has had to introduce restrictions to make sure Toby doesn’t turn into Tubby.Nat added: ‘People have been sending him food at all hours of the day - so I had to limit it to between nine in the morning to nine in the evening.‘I’m thinking of doing an updated version which features a scale to weigh him before he is fed just to make sure he’s not putting on too much puppy fat.’


HOW THE TWITTER FEEDER WORKS
When a message is sent to @feedtoby it is received by a mini-computer known as a Nanode microcontroller.
This is linked up to little motor taken from a household printer HP Deskjet 500.When the mini-computer receives the message, the buzzer goes off and Toby comes running over and sits beneath a tube under his feeder contraption.Then the motor comes to life and pulls open a trap door which releases a serving of food.The doggy treat then comes dropping down the tube and into Toby's food bowl.Then a digital camera then takes a photo of him and sends it back to Nat on Twitter - so he knows Toby has been fed.

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Calamansi/ Calamondin Lime Enzymes(Limau Kasturi Enzymes)青桔

Calamansi have very useful medicine use. I have gastric problem, when I eat not on time my sromach will fill with gas. After drinking a few times of calamansi Lime Enzymes, found out that it really relieve my stomach wind.

Benefits of calamansi :

Medicinal Use:

1. for shampooing the hair, or the fruit juice applied to the scalp after shampooing. It eliminates itching and promotes hair growth.

2. Rubbing calamondin juice on insect bites banishes the itching and irritation

3. It bleaches freckles and helps to clear up acne vulgaris and pruritus vulvae. It is taken orally as a cough remedy and antiphlogistic

4. lightly diluted and drunk warm, it serves as a laxative

5. Combined with pepper, it is prescribed in Malaya to expel phlegm.

6. The root enters into a treatment given at childbirth

7. The distilled oil of the leaves serves as a carminative with more potency than peppermint oil. The volatile oil content of the leaves is 0.90% to 1.06%

Food Uses:

1. Calamondin halves or quarters may be served with iced tea, seafood and meats, to be squeezed for the acid juice

2. Some people boil the sliced fruits with cranberries to make a tart sauce

3. Calamondins are also preserved whole in sugar sirup, or made into sweet pickles, or marmalade

4. Whole fruits, fried in coconut oil with various seasonings, are eaten with curry

5. The juice is primarily valued for making acid beverages

6. t is often employed like lime or lemon juice to make gelatin salads or desserts, custard pie or chiffon pie

7. In the Philippines, the extracted juice, with the addition of gum tragacanth as an emulsifier, is pasteurized and bottled commercially

How to make Calamansi Lime Enzymes

Calamansi can be bought at Hypermarket. Calamansi Lime Enzymes is very easy to make just like making fruits enzymes.

Material : Green calamansi, glass jar, coarse salt (organic/ hypermarket) or honey/ sugar

Glass jar can be any size, calamansi and coarse salt quantity depends on the glass jar size.

Rinse the calamansi and let it dry naturally and make sure it dry enough. Make sure the glass jar is dry too.

First step pour coarse salt into the glass jar for 1 layer roughly half to 1 inch and pour calamansi 1 layer alternately, full or half jar is up to you.

Let it ferments until the calamansi ripen or color turned yellow and ready to be served.

Make sure your spoon is dry when you take it. It is only for temporary relief, better consult a doctor if illness continues.