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I have a tractor. Mice like to chew electrical wiring because the wire casings are made of soybeans, so the tractor dealer recommended setting several traps by my tractor. I couldn't stand killing a mouse so I used "humane" catch and release traps, the problem was a mouse died because I forgot to check the trap. So I put a reed switch and an esp-32 on a catch and release mouse trap that when tripped, sent an mqtt message to aws iot, that triggered a lambda function that sent me an email notifying me I had a mouse to let out of its trap.


Oh, I built something similar with Homematic. When one of our mousetraps closes, I immediately get a message via my Pushover app.


I once gave my wife soy-based nailpolish remover, because it smelled merely horrible rather than like instant brain damage. I wonder whether, while they're at it, it wouldn't be worth it for the manufacturers of soy-based wire to coat it with something like that.




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