This BASIC Stamp 2 powered mousetrap can catch rodents live and alert you when one has been caught! You can then safely relocate the furry little critters.
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So, I think I am very close to having this published. I should know by Monday. In the meantime, there's some irony. We've been invaded by mice! Little bastards have gotten into places we didn't think possible. So now I need to prioritize the other traps (and make some extras).
Quote from: Chris Savage on Sep 12, 2026, 08:38 PMSo, I think I am very close to having this published. I should know by Monday. In the meantime, there's some irony. We've been invaded by mice! Little bastards have gotten into places we didn't think possible. So now I need to prioritize the other traps (and make some extras).
I can I get one with mice tracking ability and laser sighted gun?? I HATE mice!! Killed my cat Midnight!.... Poor Nighters had flees soo bad, they stopped bothering her.... Beverly Hills for the lil bastards....
Quote from: JKnightandKARR on Sep 26, 2026, 10:20 PMI can I get one with mice tracking ability and laser sighted gun?? I HATE mice!! Killed my cat Midnight!.... Poor Nighters had flees soo bad, they stopped bothering her.... Beverly Hills for the lil bastards....
Obviously, I
hate mice. Outside, they can go on with their lives.
But when they enter my home, all bets are off. V3 of the mousetrap (https://savagechats.com/index.php?topic=61.0) has a kill option. Stay tuned.
Quote from: Chris Savage on Sep 27, 2026, 09:32 PMObviously, I hate mice. Outside, they can go on with their lives.
But when they enter my home, all bets are off. V3 of the mousetrap (https://savagechats.com/index.php?topic=61.0) has a kill option. Stay tuned.
But, does it have
mice tracking ability and laser sighted gun? ;D
Setting the mice free after capture is a humane thing to do. I certainly don't like the glue traps a slow death does not seem right to me I have even had spring traps that don't kill the mouse imediately.
The worst mistake I made was installing a speaker system in a bedroom and dropping the wires down between the sheetrock, I did not caulk the holes in the roof space and a mouse crawled down the hole and could not get back out. It eventually died and the smell was awful, I ended up cutting a hole in the sheetrock and retrieving the corpse. I make sure to caulk the holes ever since. I had a similar thing happen in a vehicle, the mouse crawled into the cab fan and died instantly but the odor was horrendous, another corpse retrieval was needed.
Quote from: Jeff_T on Sep 28, 2026, 10:31 AMThe worst mistake I made was installing a speaker system in a bedroom and dropping the wires down between the sheetrock, I did not caulk the holes in the roof space and a mouse crawled down the hole and could not get back out. It eventually died and the smell was awful, I ended up cutting a hole in the sheetrock and retrieving the corpse. I make sure to caulk the holes ever since.
If you follow the link in the top post to the main website article, you 'll see why I designed the trap to be a non-kill trap. Don't eat before reading that. :-X Ironically, we recently had one die inside a wall in our living room. This was at the beginning of summer. We don't know exactly where, so we couldn't get it out. The stench was horrible for several months, especially on hot days.
I posted the video of the mouse, because I thought it ironic that just as I was going to publish the article, we got invaded. The the video, that disc object is a D-Con trap, though the mouse avoided it completely. I guess it goes without saying, I am expediting the rebuild of the V2 Mousetrap. ::)
It's been quiet on here lately. I've been around, I've just been quietly updating some stuff on the main website, including this project, which is being reformatted prior to submitting the article for publication.
Is anyone interested and available to read the article for this project and let me know if you find any issues? Spelling / grammar, consistency, etc. I'm looking for someone (or multiple people) who can go through this article and give me feedback. I've made a lot of changes since the original. This is especially difficult because the original unit is long gone.
There is one section, not ready yet, under the heading, "Door Adjustment". That can be ignored for now. It requires updates to code that I was going to do this weekend. Any takers?
Are you asking for a review of the article linked at the beginning of this thread, or will you provide a link to the updated article?
Quote from: granz on <strong>Today</strong> at 06:58 AMAre you asking for a review of the article linked at the beginning of this thread, or will you provide a link to the updated article?
The article linked at the top of this thread, minus the specified section.