suodrazahI made a jank chicken feeder auger.
betterdeadthanredditJank chicken sounds like the nickname of a low-effort attempt at jerk chicken. Sort of thing that’s made in a microwave and probably involves ramen seasoning, ketchup packets and self-loathing.
RiskableA feeder most fowl!
I’m not fully understanding. Video?
Here’s an early test, the print is a bit crappy because I was trying to use up old filament.
Jank Chicken Feeder - Early Test Video
Missed a trick, attach a leaf blower instead. Chicken feed shotgun!
Custom firmware based on ESP Home, I assume?
For the auger you only control the time, not the speed?
I love this idea! Seems very safe also in terms of very little could go wrong. So the chooks have a camera so you can keep an eye on them, too?
Time and speed. I’m going to add current monitoring in case of overload/locked rotor and either a weighscale for remaining qty. But we’re about to move house so this will be redeployed in a much less jank and more permanent fashion.
Do you have a stream available? I keep a submerged camera in my indoor pond in my apartment, running as closely to 24/7 as I can on a self-hosted server (using owncast) at pond.vkmphotos.com
Pondbox
Stream of the indoor pond in my Manhattan apartment
This confirms my belief that random old power drills are one of the more useful things to keep around.
Any electrical to mechanical energy conversion device, keep it! I have a lot of motors and actuators 😅
If i had the space for it, I’d be picking up so many broken washing machines for their motors.
TrackinDaKrakenMen will do anything but go to therapy. JK
Nothing jank about it. It works (I assume), and that’s what matters. Of course, spreading by hand works, too, but no one is keeping score.
I built this and the door because we were away from home for a couple of weeks, and I didn’t want the girls to be hungry or unsafe Lots of wildlife eat their food so we can’t leave it out in bulk.
It looks like you made it out of loose Dyson vacuum parts.
TroyNice! Needs a funny hand drawn sci fi logo, saying “Feedblaster 6000” or something. ;)