Archive - Aug 13, 2006

With all the individual components assembled it was time to start using the project.

It works but I am open to any suggestions on improvement.

As I have explained, this is a project designed and constructed without any specialist knowledge of electronics or mechanics/robotics. Information has been gathered from the internet and some books. The design has many inadequecies which I would be pleased for people to point out. I hope to incorporate any suggestions for improvement in to a future version.

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I am pleased to announce the completion of phase II of the ultimate chicken house project. This comprises a digital timer to delay opening the chicken house door, an automatic feed dispenser to deliver grain/pellet feed at specified times and some indoor lights to make it easier to see if the chickens are in the house at night. It is based around a PIC microcontoller...