I love my robot vacuum, but it has a bad habit of pushing the pet food bowls everywhere. I tried putting the bowls on a tray, but the vacuum would climb over the tray, knock over the bowls, and redistribute the pet food all over the house 
. I finally got tired of it and built some risers that the vacuum can’t climb over. I had a hell of a time getting the patterns to work ( I use Illustrator), but I’m really happy with the results.
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Great idea! I love the engraving for the kitties.
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Very nice job of outsmarting the robot and keeping the fur babies happy.
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They are like the pod people. Looking to take over the world!
Cool idea, love the pattern!
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Thanks! I’m a textile designer, so patterns are kind of my thing. I just wish it wasn’t so hard to get the Glowforge to read them. But thanks to the lovely people on this forum, I did finally manage to get it right.
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Ingenious. Plus the way you have the bowls fit into the tops, even the pets can’t knock them over. Great job!
I’d have to have risers all over the house so I wouldn’t have to pick stuff up before our robots clean (we have one upstairs and one downstairs). Our dog food is already elevated onto the bottom of a small cabinet, so that, at least, is safe.
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Nice job! I made a few of those out of acrylic for our cats. Both food and water bowls, which always seem so tippy. They are going on 4 years old now and still going strong.
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