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Cat Wearing Smart Collar Monitoring Health Behaviors Cat Collar Fits Two AI Models' Runtime Memory Into 48KB of Its 256KB RAM by Never Running Them Together

An open source project called Meowtion packs two on device AI models onto a single microcontroller with only 256KB of RAM, using a scheduling trick rather than model compression to make it fit. Built by Jerome Graves and documented on Hackaday.io, the wearable collar tracks a cat's eating, drinking, and resting behaviour to flag early changes that can precede illness.

The collar runs on…