Project Thesis

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1. At the morning glory farm, the starling bird gets into the chicken coop and eats the chicken food which causes them to loose money due to the lack of food because the starling birds take it. I created a treadle and an ai that can detect a starling bird and a couple others. The starling is a migratory bird and started appearing at the farm in the past 3-4 years due to climate change.

Precedents

Treadle

Tube Chicken Feeder

؜Trail Camera

Systems Diagram

Interview 1:

In the first interview we asked about problems with the chicken coop, these problems included:

1. Predators (Our first idea came from this problem)
2. Cold temperatures
3. Frozen Water
4. Starling birds (The problem I focused on)

Iteration of Ideas

؜Proposed Solution

؜My idea would keep the smaller birds, like starlings, from getting the chicken food with the system keeping lighter weights from opening up the chicken food and being too high up for the smaller birds even if they do open it. The camera would also detect the starling birds.

Prototypes

Interview 2:

During the Second interview I showed her my idea for the detection of the starling birds. She said that she liked it but she knew when the starling birds were in the coop so we had to find an idea that would physically keep the Starling birds out of the feed. This is where I found the treadle.

Prototypes of the treadle:

Timeline:

Next Steps

؜figure out problems with feeder and test it out on the farm.

1. test how much feed can go into one treadle
2. would the starlings be able to open it somehow
3. will the chickens be able to open it?
4. find other problems

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