"Life of Zero"

This work catalogued the behaviour of a Hamster called Zero One in a big-brother style cage.
Cameras monitored how much water and food the hamster consumed, how much it slept and when. Magnetic sensors detected the average amount of time the hamster spent in the wheels, how many times they rotated in an hour, time spent in certain wheels, average speed, favourite wheels and what part of the day he was most active. With all this data, it was possible to map all aspects of the hamster’s daily life onto an input/output device (similar to Arduino) and analyse behaviour over hours, days, weeks and months.
Although the raw information was not of significance, what was interesting was when the hamster broke his routine. Through analysis of binary data it was possible to try and figure out why the hamster changed his behaviour.
Unfortunately the project had to be abandoned after discovering an allergy to hamsters and complaints from flatmates due to the noise of the cage.

Hamster, Cage, Cameras, Computer, IO Device, Magnet sensors, Website.
Project started and ended in 2006.