Don’t have a cat? This project will give you 70 random ones, for 5 seconds each.

My friend’s birthday is tomorrow. I am too broke to buy a gift, so I made this project in one sitting. That is why there is only one devlog (apologies Hackclub staff) and much less time logged than I actually spent on it (~4.5 hours).

I often get sent cat reels from him, so I decided to bring the cats directly to his desktop: through a desktop-pet style vending machine that dispenses random cats (with a kirby easter egg).

This project was made in python using tkinter for desktop applications and Pillow for advanced image resizing and rendering.

Most of the trials and tribulations came from getting the vending machine animation to look right and the cat library to be actually accessed instead of always falling back on the try catch.

Anyway, here is a cat vending machine.