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Simple, inexpensive bird feeder that dispenses peanuts in exchange for dropping stuff in a hole. A vending machine for clever birds.

stephen-chaseyStephen Chasey 06/21/2022 at 16:151 Comment

The feeder has been out on my front balcony for about 5 days now. I've noticed that pigeons are starting to push around the bottlecaps and butts around and sometimes get a peanut.

I want to be able to see what's going on during the day while I'm away, so I made an IP cam from a Raspberry Pi Zero W and a wide-angle camera module using MotionEyeOS. I had tried Zoneminder and Agent DVR first, but they were resource intensive and harder to set up. MotioneyeOS took about 30 mins to install and configure.

I'm still tweaking the motion detection, but hopefully I can share some interesting videos soon. Yes, that is a TicTac box.

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Stephen Chasey wrote 06/21/2022 at 16:20 point

That red square around the peanut jar is to prevent water ingress when it rains. I want to make it look nicer, but it works for now.

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