Arduino microcontroller prototyping of an automated cockroach trap with the following features:
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Uses LDR and LED combination to detect presence of cockroach
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Uses a servo motor to rotate foam inserts so as to push the cockroach into the trap.
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Allows 20seconds for the cockroach to find it's way into the bottom container, incentivized with bait.
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Servo motor returns the foam inserts to the entrapment position ready to trap another cockroach.
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My partner didn't want to open the cupboard where the smart cockroach trap was positioned, just to know if we had trapped a cockroach, so I created a simple remote monitoring using 433Mhz TX/Rx radios and a second arduino with a 4 digit 7 segment LED display that displays the count of the number of cockroaches trapped.
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Also implimented creating a log.txt file that logged the Date/time and count using a SDcard writer attached to the remote monitoring Arduino, i.e. study cockroach behavior.