Bluetooth Shock Collar Keeps Wearer On Task | Hackaday
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Like a lot of us [Liam Kloppers] had a problem with doomscrolling. Unwilling to go cold-turkey because he does find some utility in social media. He tried a number of things before deciding to say "Screw it" and just go full Pavlov on himself with some old-fashioned classical conditioning. Who needs willpower when you have electric shocks to dissuade you?
The key here was finding an electric-shock dog collar that could be controlled via a smartphone application, which meant he could reverse-engineer its Bluetooth protocol and get it linked up to his own software. The initial implementation ties his quick-and-dirty Python control program with a web server living on his laptop, which he’s configured MacroDroid to call on when his personal criterion for ‘doomscrolling’ is met.
With the shock collar wrapped around his leg, [Liam] was ready to test. It turns out dogs are a lot tougher than people, because even when set to a low level, the shock from the device made him toss his phone across the room and had him hesitant to even pick it up again.
Since he couldn’t bring himself to put the shock collar back onto his leg, he’s now thinking of an audible alarm, something we’ve seen work before. If you’re as unhappy with your habits as [Liam], perhaps consider a device like Commodore’s social-media-free phone before resorting to self-electrocution.
35 thoughts on “Bluetooth Shock Collar Keeps Wearer On Task”
Torture is bad, m’kay?
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Sounds like Pavlok https://pavlok.com/
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This is pretty appalling that Hackaday are even sharing this, Shock Collars no matter the use shouldn’t be covered. "It Turns out dogs are a lot tougher" No, it’s just pure cruelty and torture for them.
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Modern man yearns for absolutely pointless censorship
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This is what happens when we don’t legalize ADHD medication
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ADHD medication is legal…
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And so over-prescribed that we have shortages of it..
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Here you go https://ryansultan.com/adhd/statistics
Nothing like some facts to douse the propaganda, assuming one is willing to adjust their perspective based on information available to them.
Btw medication saved my life. I wouldn’t wish the 40 years of trauma and abuse of not being diagnosed and supported on anyone.
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Most dogs have more fur than most humans. Calibrate the shock voltage according to the expected insulation present on the recipient.
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Building an unregulated electric stimulation device is trivial. You just need a 9V boost DC-DC, an H-bridge driver, and two adhesive TENS electrodes. Then, all you need is a GPIO to generate a pseudo-sine wave. Obviously, keep it far away from your heart.
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not even that. My first one (8yo) was a motor in series with a transformer, quite some decent sparks on the HV end of the transformer. I doubt there is simpler circuit than that.
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I’m not sure it would be legal to own such device in the EU. It’s probably illegal.
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It’s illegal to use the collars on animals, not sure if such thing is still illegal for concenting adults. PiShock and OpenShock are what you could look up if interested.
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incorrect
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AFAIK, there is no EU-wide law banning them and owner ship legality differs from country to country. In the Netherlands for example buying and ownership are not illegal, usage (on animals) is.
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I find it very hard to believe that the Germans have banned kinky sex electrodes. No, not buying it
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This is so wrong on so many levels.
Dogs have an entirely different threshold for pain, especially around the neck – I’ve watched our vet enlarge and clean a deep incision without the dog reacting at all without any attempt to numb the spot.
There are commercial devices designed for actual human beings that do this safely — https://pavlok.com
Get a rubber band around your wrist and snap it when you want to give yourself pain, the way grandma suggested.
Maybe look at what’s driving your behavior and address that before using techniques that are, frankly, bad tools even for animals with about a million years difference in cognitive evolution.
The only thing that would be worse than this guy trying and reporting this is as a failure would be if he tried it and reported as a great success.
Total idiot.
And shame on you HaD for reporting on something that would be TikTok slop
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For public speaking you want to train yourself to eliminate disfluencies, which are things like "ah, um, ya know" and so on. When we’re stuck for a word, proper speaking is to simply pause without any of these distracting noises. (Plus of a couple of other categories, such as...