Diesel the Hamster

These are the voyages of Diesel, the Russian Dwarf hamster...

Absolutely no hamsters were harmed in the making of this project, as it is entirely done via remote sensing! As far as we can tell, Diesel's privacy has not been invaded; he still pees in a secret corner and buries other waste products - and he has so far to lodge a complaint to the house council despite being given ample notice and chances to do so. A plus side of monitoring him is that, perhaps in theory, his activity level may even be a proxy for his health and happiness - hamsters do love a good spin on their wheels! I suspect that mounting a webcam on the side of his cage may well be just too much for the little guy's anxiety levels, so such flagrant disregard for personal space is unlikely to occur.

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Data output

(Only a placeholder for a SVG-based data logging graph, one day it'll show x=time and y=distance travelled, or speed, or both...)

Intention: to use an array stored within the HTML and query it to make an adjustable graph like the one below, for different variables

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Number of rows: 4570