coop door maiden run

Our door prototype assembled from scavenged materials is running in the wild with great success!

At first, the chickens were not wild about the whole thing:

But after a few weeks of that little gear motor cranking away twice a day, they could care less. Now onto new spark.io hardware and cloud stuff…

l.barefield@comcast.net March 31, 2015 at 2:27 am

Nice job! I like the sliding door (??) hardware.

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karen March 31, 2015 at 3:19 am

Very Cool! Love the materials.

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tomatoworm March 31, 2015 at 3:10 pm

I need help envisioning what’s moving. Does the blue lucite/plastic piece slide left-right over the opening? And does the large door-like piece swing open on hinges?

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1. Alison March 31, 2015 at 4:27 pm
  
  Yes and yes!
  
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l.barefield@comcast.net April 30, 2015 at 5:12 pm

Hey,

We would like to use your chicken door technology to open and close our drapes while we are on the road,

If you would share your design, I have some 6ft lengths of 3/8″ ACME threaded rod, ACME nuts, and some 12v gear motors to drive them. I think I my have an Arduino as well.

Thanks,

Larry

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