{"id":523,"date":"2012-06-26T07:46:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T07:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/?p=523"},"modified":"2012-06-26T07:46:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T07:46:26","slug":"flying-chickens-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"Flying Chickens v1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago a fox ate ten of my chickens, leaving only &#8220;Lucky&#8221; behind since she decided it was wiser to roost on top of a shed.  It gave me an idea.  All I needed was a winch, a raspberry pi controller and the cunning use of a few bits of rope.<\/p>\n<p>Mk1 was a test to see if everything worked out.  It was a success.  The winch was able to lift the chicken coop into the tree but I had to defeat the safety mechanism on the winch as the coop was being lifted off-centre and was causing the winch wire to drag on the safety cut-out and activating it.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-523 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/?attachment_id=524'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0990-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/?attachment_id=525'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0991-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/?attachment_id=526'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0992-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/?attachment_id=527'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0993-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/?attachment_id=528'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0994-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/?attachment_id=529'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0995-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/?attachment_id=530'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0997-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/?attachment_id=531'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0998-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/?attachment_id=532'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0999-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/?attachment_id=533'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_1001-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The raspberry pi controller will be used to grab the sunrise\/sunset times from the internet and at sunset will activate the winch and drag the coop [ hopefully with the chickens in it ] up into the tree.  Then at sunrise it will gently lower the chucks back down to the ground.  An added bonus of using the raspberry pi is I can introduce a Pavlovian response into the chickens by playing a tune a few minutes before the coop goes up.  This will hopefully herd them all into the safety of the coop.  I realise I may be attributing too much intelligence to the chickens!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Engineering issues left to solve:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe winch has to be perfectly level or the cable all bunches up at one end and this is not groovy.  So I must find a way to suspend about 300kg of weight with millimetre accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>I have to interface the GPIO pins of the Raspberry Pi to a 240v winch.  I&#8217;ve yet to take the winch controller apart and work out what voltage we have going through the controls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago a fox ate ten of my chickens, leaving only &#8220;Lucky&#8221; behind since she decided it was wiser to roost on top of a shed. It gave me an idea. All I needed was a winch, a raspberry pi controller and the cunning use of a few bits of rope. Mk1 was a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/?p=523\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flying Chickens v1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}