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Another morning for Ruby & Rosie
Another morning Ruby & Rosie being released and it’s going to be bloody hot mate.
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Wi-Fi Chicken Feeder – Part 3
From Part 2 the feeder is ready for testing but let’s make it more portable and add a battery. I have CCTV 12V plugs to bare ends so need a couple of spade connectors.
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Wi-Fi Chicken Feeder – Part 2B
These days I have problems just holding and seeing my phone so the clips are pretty shabby.
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Wi-Fi Chicken Feeder – Part 2A
We finished Part 1 with making a cover frame and mounting the servo motor. From the last session…
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Wi-Fi Chicken Feeder – Part 1
Suitable for use in the chook run where there is 240V power for the 12V power supply or powered from 12V SLA battery for controlled feed sessions the yard or further out within wi-fi range. The feeder is controlled with … Continue reading
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Wi-Fi Bird feeder Part 3A
Components are sitting on two fence palings that I dressed in the planer/jointer machine. Thinking… shuffling things around.
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Gardening – Front fence border shrubs
From earlier this year I’ve been looking at that… yeah must get onto that. Overdue to the point where trimming and pruning was impossible so had to revert to lopping!
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Wi-Fi Chicken Door – Part 11B
Replaced the fence paling that was on the outside with some nice dressed 90mm pine.
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