Hacking a cheap amazon automatic chicken door to work with Arduino or Raspberry PI
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- Опубліковано 15 гру 2024
- Real quick video on how to hack a cheapo amazon automatic chicken door, there are lots of these that just use daylight to determine if the door should open or close, but if your coop is covered or shaded by trees obviously this won't work. So I've hack this one to be controllable by Arduino or raspberry pi, or even a switch if you wanted.
Sadly the door I bought is no longer for sale on amazon, I actually bought two of them and now the listing is gone. However like I said in the video there are plenty of other options on amazon.
The below one looks basically the same, just different colored plastic, I'm unsure if the control board will be exactly the same however, but the concept should still apply.
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Hello, I bought an automatic chicken coop door last year, but I thought I would power it with a battery. When the amperage was too high, it burned some of the circuit elements. Is there a way to find that circuit?
Hi, great! I was just looking for this, this helps a lot. But about a Raspberry Pi Pico, how would you power the motor as itself can only ouput 3.3V. Thinking about using lm7805 with USB connected to it for power? The 4,5V is just not that nice... lower or higher was nicer these days and I'm not aware yet of the marging it can handle. Maybe you tested that already!
So what I ended up doing was hacking up a usb cord to hitch into 5 volts for the power and ground from a hub thats inside a box on the back of the chicken coop, which also contains the raspberry pi, then I hooked my hacked in 'signal' line directly to a GPIO pin as the signal goes to a microcontroller it only needed 3.3v, no other glue logic was needed and its been running for a month now happily without any magic smoke :)
motor link pls