If your pet has the freedom of indoor and outdoor life by means of a pet flap in the door - but you'd like more control over which side they're on - this is the project for you. Created by Instrucables user "tareker", it's an Arduino-based timing system that controls a servo in order to lock or unlock the pet flap. This gives you the freedom to keep the pets outside during the day, or in the cat inside during the evening - and with a little extra work perhaps Internet-control of the lock or position monitoring. Either way it's a simple automated solution to a common problem.
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