Chicken Coop

DIY electronics for an automated chicken coop, built around an ESP32 + ESPHome + Home Assistant:

• Automated door (open/close on a schedule, plus manual push-button control)
• Feed fill level sensing (load cell)
• Water fill level and temperature sensing

Initially based on Kip Haynes' automatic chicken coop door.

• esphome.yaml — ESPHome firmware configuration
• chicken-coop.kicad_sch — KiCad schematic (rendered version below)
• models/ — OpenSCAD source and rendered 3D models for printed parts
• PARTS_LIST.md — shopping list of parts used
• slides.pdf — slides from the talk given at Toorcamp 2026

Code, schematics, and 3D models (including those embedded in the slides) are licensed under GPL-3.0.

Photos and the slide deck itself (excluding the embedded schematics and code snippets) are licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0.