/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3521343

>750$!!? how the hell

This one didn't cost that much. You're thinking of the Mk.III, pictured.

>also, where do you live

That's personal info.

>>3396948

>>wait, sry, what is he talking about?

Some time ago I constructed a functioning model underwater habitat at the correct scale for hamsters. I then deployed it in a lake at 4 feet and a pool at 8 feet. It functioned as expected and I collected some mildly amusing footage which can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05pkg0DuPNQ

However that habitat was a modest one-room affair and sustained just one hamster. So I have now constructed a hamster colony with four rooms, including an exercise wheel and a filtered water intake so that their drinking water is effectively unlimited, though they still rely on a finite (but enormous) stockpile of food.

I will be deploying this colony very soon.

...And inhabited. :3 It is not underwater yet, but that will come soon. Here's the blog link:

http://hampture.blogspot.com/

And here's a youtube vid taken by the interior view camera showing the three daring industrialist uberhamsters exploring their new home, battling for supremacy and generally doing objectivist hamster stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh1r_yTHoYw

All three are siblings from the same cage so I was assured they won't hurt each other. I was more nervous about airflow, although as you can see I've modified the tubing so that air is now piped into all 4 rooms instead of 2 (where before it relied on interior airflow to distribute fresh air, it's now manually injected into every living space.) After an hour and a half they're no less energetic, which is consonant with the original math indicating that the deep water air pump I'm using can sustain 15 hamsters. 3 is no sweat. Still, putting this whole thing underwater is going to be nerve wracking. I made sure to install a heater pad (red thing, in the rightmost room) that will be powered constantly from the mains so that if they need to get warm, they have a way to do it, just like in Hampture Mk.II.

Everything seems to be in order, just gotta add the water filter (using a water dish until then) set up everything that will be on the surface in weatherproof enclosures (the battery backup for the pump in case of power failure, the power strip that everything plugs into, the dedicated laptop for the livestream channel, etc.) we could have Hampture underwater and streaming live video within the week.