The Smartest Chicken Coop (17) ECE342-W21

The smart chicken coop system automates day to day tasks, while tracking and displaying insightful data for the user. Once installed, interior lighting and door access will be controlled automatically, while the system simultaneously monitors daylight hours, food and water consumption, and temperature, as well as the status of said resources. This system revolves around an Arduino Mega 2560 Microcontroller, giving us plenty of memory for the sketch file, and ample I/O pins for our various sensors and lights. What we used to track food and water levels were two ultrasonic distance sensors, with temperature being measured by a temperature and humidity sensor. In order to track daylight, a photocell was used in a resistor divider, to measure brightness levels based off of output voltage. All of this data is stored on an SD via attached SD card reader, and shown on an LCD display. As a group we were able to successfully meet all of our project goals, creating a system that meets the engineering standards. A primary issue we had was with delays within our loop potentially throwing off the overall timing of our system. To combat this, we implemented an Arduino RTC (real time clock), in order to have a reference clock that is unaffected by delays in our code. In hindsight, we all agreed that we would have begun meeting in person earlier, and also started compiling our individual code collectively sooner than we did.

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Executive Summary Executive Summary   Download
Project Summary Video Project Summary Video   Link
Developer Guide Contains System Overview, Electrical Specifications, User Guide, Design Artifacts, PCB Information, and Part Information.   Download