About

During my second year at Georgia Tech, I purchased a betta fish named Sushi. I wanted a pet to keep me company, but only fish are allowed in the on-campus apartments. I didn’t know how to take care of him during breaks, so I build an automatic fish feeder that I could mount to the top of the tank. It would feed Sushi every 12 hours so that he would not be overfed.

The design involved a stepper motor, stepper controller, Arduino, and laser-cut wood. I designed the mechanism in PTC Creo, and then I laser-cut plywood from .dxf files at the Invention Studio. I wrote simple code to control the stepper motor, then wired everything up on a breadboard. This was a really fun project that I knocked out in a couple days.