Week 1: Preventing Overfeeding (Reduced Food Accessibility)

As mentioned, overfeeding needs to be avoided. The machine needs to make sure that the pet does not have access to more than one serving at a time. This can be done be convering the uneaten portion or by disposing of the uneaten portion --All before feeding again. This also helps to make sure that the pet has access only to fresh food.

• Covering:
  The ability to cover old potions before making a new portion available would logically suggest compartments. Compartments could be rotated between, clicked between, or opened and closed.
  Clicking between compartments would be the most ideal.
• Disposal:
  There are a few ways to take the uneaten potions of food out of reach
• Trap door to a waste bin below (would make using a scale nearly impossible)
  PIC
• Sweeping to a waste receptacle to the side
  PIC
• In order to dispose of the food in this way, a logical statement would be needed before the next feeding, outlined here:
• If not empty
     Dispose then refill
  Elseif empty
     Refill
  End
• The terms empty, not empty, full and refill would be of replaced by terms needed to use whichever actions (outlined above) chosen.