{"id":1060,"date":"2011-09-12T02:36:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T07:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2011-09-12T02:36:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T07:36:46","slug":"member-projects-chicken-coop-door-and-bicycle-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/2011\/member-projects-chicken-coop-door-and-bicycle-generator\/","title":{"rendered":"Member Projects &#8211; Chicken Coop Door and Bicycle Generator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chicken Coop Automatic Door:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rather than paying several hundred dollars for an automatic door system, Larry and Carol created a smart door by using junk around Sector67.  The final product is composed of an expensive looking Swiss DC motor, some plumbing fittings, an aluminum plate, an Arduino\/Real Time Clock\/H Bridge Motor Driver, and some string:<\/p>\n<p>Demonstration:<br \/>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.5.2 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"345px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ycs97tleOkM\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Slides:<br \/>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.5.2 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"345px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RHy6prdYczc\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Bicycle Powered Generator:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For my Independence Day party on July 2nd of 2011 I decided to do a show  and tell. I provided a kids bicycle mounted to a trainer turning it  into a stationary bike. I removed the residence wheel and mounted a small electric generator (3 phase 120V DC motor with 8:1 gearbox) to the bicycle. The generator contraption  was setup to power the patriotic rope light. I set up a laptop with  internet access and an amplifier with speakers. The music selection was  entirely impromptu and was subject to my guest\u2019s quick and creative  reaction to the situation.<\/p>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.5.2 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"345px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sGQ8_BKqZvQ\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicken Coop Automatic Door: Rather than paying several hundred dollars for an automatic door system, Larry and Carol created a smart door by using junk around Sector67. The final product is composed of an expensive looking Swiss DC motor, some<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/2011\/member-projects-chicken-coop-door-and-bicycle-generator\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[228,523,227,225,226],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-4th-of-july","tag-arduino","tag-bike-generator","tag-chicken-coop-door","tag-member-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}