alangibson/autofowl

Automatic Chicken Coop Door

autofowl

Automatic Chicken Coop Door

Installation

Generic Linux Installation

curl -O https://downloads.arduino.cc/arduino-1.6.13-linux64.tar.xz
tar -xvf arduino-1.6.13-linux64.tar.xz
sudo mv arduino-1.6.13 /opt
cd /opt/arduino-1.6.13/
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh

Install Arduino IDE on Ubuntu

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-desktop/ubuntu-make
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-make
sudo umake ide arduino

Install AccelStepper Library

curl -O http://www.airspayce.com/mikem/arduino/AccelStepper/AccelStepper-1.53.zip
unzip AccelStepper-1.53.zip
sudo mv AccelStepper /opt/arduino-1.6.13/libraries/

Install RTClib

curl -o RTCLib.zip https://codeload.github.com/adafruit/RTClib/zip/master
unzip RTCLib.zip
sudo mv RTClib-master /opt/arduino-1.6.13/libraries/

Usage

Upload sketch

/opt/arduino-1.6.13/arduino --board arduino:avr:uno --port /dev/ttyACM0 --upload arduino/autofowl.ino

Listen to serial

cu -l /dev/ttyACM* -s 9600

Schematics

Eagle libraries

https://cdn.sparkfun.com/datasheets/BreakoutBoards/RTC-Module.v14.zip https://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-64306

Development

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