The Spykee Spy Robot, a cool new project by the folks from Erector has the potential to be the next revolution in tank monitoring. It’s not enough to just have the latest whiz-bang internet-enabled aquarium controller, We need to know that the lights are on and the tank is fine. This is where Spykee comes in; this so-called toy is a WiFi controlled spy robot that “…moves, watches, hears, speaks and monitors…” from any internet connected computer in the world. On vacation and having some trouble with the tank? Since Spykee has both video and VoIP abilities, you can use Spykee to aim your web camera where you need to inspect your tank in many directions or you can walk your tank sitter through some of the quick fixes in real time. At work and want to make sure your kids aren’t coming in to play with Nemo? Spykee will detect any movement in the room, snap a picture and shoot it to you via email. Plus with the ability to play MP3’s, Spykee can keep you company during your tank maintenance, just pop in your favorite songs or podcast and work away. For just over $200, the Spykee could be a great Christmas gift for your kids that you could hijack and make your aquarium robot guard-dog. Realistically though, the technology is there are we have used piecemeal innovations to do tank cams and other remote monitoring solutions, it may be only a matter of time before a hi-tech robotic monitoring device is adopted widely in the hobby—it only makes sense.
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Boy this thing looks familiar….wonder where I’ve seen it before? Looks pretty dang cool! Just wish they had those when I was a kid. I could build a sick crane and pretend it had a camera.
Brian
if you program it to do water changes then i’ll take two.
All we need to do is teach it how to take the lid off a skimmer, reach in there (with a rubber glove no doubt), and clean out the neck… and no more self-cleaning heads needed.