Owning a small flock of chickens means regularly opening and closing the coop’s main door, collecting the eggs, and making sure there is enough food and water. Given that most of this needs to be done daily, you’ll need to arrange for someone to perform these tasks if you want to get away for more than a day or two.

Enter SmartCoop. One of the key design goals behind this project was to ensure the system was robust enough that its creator, Dave Duncanson, could be away for up to a week without anyone physically attending to it, while still preventing the local foxes from getting to the chickens.







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