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Building an Automated Chicken Coop Door [In December, we added some more turkeys to the flock, so now 5 turkeys. They were kept in the hoop coop for a while, primarily to keep the rest of the flock out of the higher protein feed the turkeys were getting. Once released into the flock, they did…
Equipment: POE (Power Over Ethernet) Switch, in this case a 5 port switch that supports 4 cameras and an uplink to your router. Order one of these: Outdoor POE Dome Camera with Pan, Tilt, Zoom Order two of these: Cable Crimper, Cable Connectors, Tester Kit Order one of these: Cat5e Cable, 250 Feet, roll. Order…
So early in January, the automation of the chicken door started and the Arduino starter kit came in….a good way to start of 2018. It seemed to me that using a microprocessor like the Arduino would be a good place to start, because it could process several factors in the process of the door opening. …