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After making a dog-shaped treat machine powered by an arduino + servo, I wanted to try the same idea with purely mechanical workings. And so was born the Kitty Pinball Machine!

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It started out with super rough prototyping to figure out the geometry needed to get the flipper action working for a cat-sized being

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From there I built up a draftboard version of the basic machine. The pinball parts are separated from the treat dispensing parts by a spinner that spans both layers. The pinball hit the spinner and the spinner hits the treat out of the chute

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Then I tested it with my cat to see if the idea would even work… and it did! Proof of concept was a success! = ^.^=

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I wanted to just use acrylic for a shiny finished look (and avoid using paint) so I had to make some adjustments until the acrylic version worked smoothly

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Then it was just a final design pass to create the ‘Fish tank’ look

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I’m super happy with how this came out, and my cat loves to play with it. I’m still wrapping up a few build things, but am going to share the SVG files for other people to make it too

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