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Background; HamsterTracker™ Requirements


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HamsterTracker (tm) Hardware with two Infrared sensors.

Operational Hardware Requirements

  • A hamster! Like Lucy!

  • Livingworld® Habitrail® hamster cage
  • Pentium PC
  • Mppp-i interface
  • HamsterTracker™ sensors
  • Broadband internet connection to be 24/7/365 (=always) online.
  • .....



    • Pictures & Videos hardware (4 the website & documentation):

  • Logitech QuickCam Express

    • Logitech QuickCam Express
  • Later upgraded to Logitech QuickCam Zoom

    • Logitech QuickCam Zoom
  • Upgraded in June 2004: Trust 782AV LCD Power Video

    • Trust 782 AV LCD Camera Trust 782 AV LCD Camera - another view
  • A Sandisk SD-card memory expantion to allow for 700 Pictures or 2 hours of video

    • Picture of my 256 Mb Secure Digital memory card
  • Trust Easy Webscan 19200

    • My Trust Easy Webscan 19200
  • Kodak Advantix T500 APS camera


    • My Kodak Advantix T500 APS Camera


    Software Requirements

    Microsoft Windows 98 logo My favorite HTML Editor!
  • Microsoft Windows 98 or higher

  • HamsterTracker™
  • Notepad.exe as Html-editor
  • Paint Shop Pro; for me the best graphics editing application. Download a evaluation copy at www.jasc.com.
  • .....





    • Miscellaneous

  • All the spare time you can find in 10 years!
  • Patience, you'll actually need this quite a lot!
  • Endurance, It can be hard to try to finish a huge project like this!
  • No fear of failure! Because you can only learn from it, there is no failure!

  • HTML knowledge. Or at least know where to find it: www.w3schools.com
  • 2 DO: .....



    • Internet services

  • My Guestbook, it's free (!!!), but (must admit) has some anoying popup's.




    • Free Guestbook from Bravenet.com Free Guestbook from Bravenet.com


  • For keeping track of visiting statistics I use (also free):

    Nedstat Counter logo


    • My Provider
    www.iae.nl - my provider
    Also provider of my page counters used on this site:

    Visit Counter


  • TinyUrl.com for my short URL; http://tinyurl.com/5hkrv
    Enter a long URL to make tiny:


  • I can recommend the Google toolbar; it has an exellent Popup blocker! Get your copy at toolbar.google.com

    Picture of Google toolbar logo

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    ing. Mathijs A. van der Paauw