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Alan Graham's automatic chicken door

Mark Frauenfelder at 4:05 pm Tue, Sep 1, 2009

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Alan Graham's home made automatic chicken door has mine beat by a country mile, because he can run it from his iPhone. His hens sure are cute.

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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machinelf

Very nice! One question though: Isn’t the insulation useless if you smash it up like that?
Neuron

Flo Control
Anonymous

Why does a chicken-coup have 2 doors?

If it had 4, it would be a chicken-sedan.
jfrancis

Great. Now where am I going to find an automatic chicken?
technogeek

With apologies to Walt Kelley:

“Get thee hens, Sir Griswald! Hens, I say!”
annakite

Very sweet! Throw in some more homemade options like an automatic chicken waterer and an automatic
chicken feeder and you might forget you have chickens. :-)
MrsBug

Love!
automaticchicken

There’s a kid in indiana that makes a side living selling these
Automatic Chicken Doors

His version is a very simple one