{"id":624,"date":"2014-08-18T14:45:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T22:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plasma2002.com\/blog\/?p=624"},"modified":"2014-09-09T06:28:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T14:28:41","slug":"turning-the-blender-defender-into-a-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plasma2002.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/18\/turning-the-blender-defender-into-a-product\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning the Blender Defender into a product"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of, if not THE most popular installation I have done would have to be the Blender Defender<\/a>. If you have not heard of it yet, please take a second to click and check it out. To sum it up, it keeps the cat off the counters by turning on the blender when it detects motion, and<\/p>\n

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While many people still enjoy reading about the project, and seeing the videos, I still\u00a0randomly get a user ask me if they can “buy it”. The problem is that the Blender Defender is not really a set-it-and-forget-it type of installation. Nor is it one piece of hardware that is easily set up by the average owner of a counter climbing cat.<\/p>\n

I’ve been toying with the idea of how I could manage to make the Blender Defender into an actual product in the past, but it has always just been thrown around with all my other ideas, never really coming to the front of the line.<\/p>\n

Now, after some encouragement from others,\u00a0I have finally decided revisit\u00a0the idea,\u00a0and obtain some\u00a0parts from\u00a0Newark<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Over the course of these posts, I will be documenting my processes of making a product out of a concept. A\u00a0video recording, motion detecting cat deterring\u00a0device may not be something you find on the shelves\u00a0at your local store anytime soon, but the\u00a0exercise in building this is going to be a fun one.<\/p>\n

Now, on to the concepts.<\/p>\n

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Requirements.<\/h1>\n

These are the basic requirements of what I need to see with the Blender Defender.<\/p>\n