Automated Snake Enclosure with Camera
Interactive snake enclosure that is temperature and humidity controlled and uses lat-long to mimic natural light cycles, with an online cam
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Components
Hardware components
Arduino - Arduino Mega 2560
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Adafruit - DHT22 temperature-humidity sensor
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Project description
Background I wanted to create a snake enclosure that I did not have to monitor 24/7 and tend to all change from daylight to night. It started out as a project to switch from day to night and it grew from there. I wanted to mirror their natural habitat in temperature that changes daily to replicate the changing of the seasons with fans and various heat elements, sunrise and set to match their natural habitat, humidity to keep them healthy. But I also wanted to be able to manipulate these settings for various reasons. How It Works It uses a RTC to save the date and time at restarts (happens…
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