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Pizero2W+Pico2W turret

A couple of robots to defend the chicken coop from hawks!

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A piZero 2 W, and a pico on a pan-tilt designed to scare away hawks from the chicken coop and protect the chickens! The Pi zero is connected to the pico over UART. The Pi zero uses it's camera to scan for dangers to the chickens. The pico controls the servos using a kitronics robotis board. The Pi zero creates a web UI for manual control, but if no commands are received, it will tell the pico to move the servos to look around. Put's up a little radar display. Another Pi5 robot takes the video feed and uses it's Hailo to use a custom vision model to help identify Hawks. When a hawk ID is confirmed, the Zero will track it , AND FIRE MISSILES!, no, not really. It plays the "America, F*ck Yeah" song on full blast and uses it's two bright LED strobe lights to scare the hawks away from the chickens. Next will add little american flags, cuz this little rocket turret is a very patriotic robot scarecrow.

Egg Prices are through the roof, so we are putting together a chicken coop defense force of small robots to protect the Chickens!

This project covers the pan tilt turret only.  For components used for the mobile bot in this project, it has it's own list of builds.  

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test_ultrasonic.py

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test_pir_leds.py

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  • 1 × 3-D printed turret
  • 2 × 25kg metal 180 digital servos
  • 2 × White LED's with integrated driver
  • 1 × Ultrasonic distance sensor
  • 1 × PiR sensor

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    You can't put rockets on it to shoot at the hawks. 

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