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CatFeeder

Elixir code for a cat feeder that receives interrupts from a proximity sensor and triggers a stepper motor to turn an augur to deliver a small amount of food. It then waits 20 minutes before it can be activated again.

See related blog posts on http://wsmoak.net

The proximity sensor is a VCNL4010 from Adafruit https://www.adafruit.com/product/466 https://cdn-shop.adafruit.com/product-files/466/vcnl4010.pdf

The stepper motor is controlled by a PCA9685 (among other things) on the Adafruit Stepper Motor HAT https://www.adafruit.com/products/2348 http://www.adafruit.com/datasheets/PCA9685.pdf

Initially:

  • Install dependencies with mix deps.get
  • Create firmware with mix firmware
  • Burn to an SD card with mix firmware.burn

Subsequently:

  • Create firmware with mix firmware
  • Burn to an SD card with mix firmware.burn --task upgrade to avoid overwriting the appdata partition

To set the time:

Connect a monitor and keyboard to the RPi. After it boots, hit enter to get an iex prompt if one is not visible. Enter System.cmd("date",["MMDDHHMMYYYY"]) for the current time in UTC.

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