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Scratch Smart Dog Feeder

Scratch Smart Dog Feeder
“The average dog should have his nails clipped every three to four weeks, but it should be done as often as needed to keep the nail from touching the ground when your dog is standing.”
-PetMD by Chewy
Scratch Smart Dog Feeder is an automatic dog feeder which reacts to scratching. Our survey result manifests that many dog owners are having issues with cutting nail for various reasons. Cutting dog's nails is stressful for both owner and a dog while it can be time consuming.

Scratch Smart Dog Feeder will solve this problem. 
Mechanism is simple. When the dog scratches its nail on the scratch pad, the sensor will detect and calculate scratching sorted by input setting. Input setting requires the information of the dog and a test. For information, it will ask about dog's breed, weight, height, etc... It will also proceed several tests that saves various data for precise feeding in future. After input setting of the dog is applied, water and food will be served with a certain amount that was either calculated by input setting or custom setting. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The grooves on lids and the bowl not only makes the design seamless but also allows owner to take out and put in easily while prevents the dogs to take those out. 

The transparent rectangle with soft edges on both side shows the amount of water and food inside of inner container.  

Feeder also contains screen on the side and bluetooth app that can control the settings and the product anywhere. 

Main body and lids will be made of acetal polyoxymethylene which is known for high strength, excellent creep resistance, and low friction qualities while bowl and inner container for food and water will be made of Stainless steel which is durable.
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Collaborative design with Gianna Hill
Sketch, Part of physical model, CAD model, and Rendering were made by Daham Kim
real life example is made by Giana Hill
Scratch Smart Dog Feeder
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Scratch Smart Dog Feeder

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