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| ======= Automated Chicken Door ======= | ======= Automated Chicken Door - Research ======= |
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| While the chicken door offers basic functionality, it could be iterated on and improved in a couple of ways. | While the chicken door offers basic functionality, it could be iterated on and improved in a couple of ways. |
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| 1. Display current brightness. Using a small LCD display it should be possible to display the current brightness received by the photoresistor, allowing us to more easily estimate when the door opens/closes | *. Display current brightness. Using a small LCD display it should be possible to display the current brightness received by the photoresistor, allowing us to more easily estimate when the door opens/closes |
| 2. Manual control. It would be useful to be able to manually control the door in some circumstances - debugging and when one might want to lock the chickens in/out regardless of the time of day. Using two buttons it should be simple to be able to toggle auto/manual control and toggle the position of the door. | *. Manual control. It would be useful to be able to manually control the door in some circumstances - debugging and when one might want to lock the chickens in/out regardless of the time of day. Using two buttons it should be simple to be able to toggle auto/manual control and toggle the position of the door. |
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