Comments on: Simple fish feeder

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:29:23 +0000

Awesome! Just built this for our upcoming week vacation. No more fish-sitters! Yay!

By: shiny guru

shiny guru — Fri, 21 May 2010 17:54:08 +0000

The straw acts as a baffle and only allows one shot – much the same as the sugar dispensers that used to be on cafe tables (at least here in the UK in my youth)if you image google ‘cafe sugar dispenser’ you will see the kind of thing if you are not familiar with them

By: LuciusMare

LuciusMare — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:42:13 +0000

Nice, but i do not get one thing – the wheel rotates slowly, doesn’t all the food just fall into the water at once?

By: David

David — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:16:00 +0000

I tried this today, I will be traveling for the holidays and need to keep my fish fed for 8 days. However, if you want to buy an analog timer don’t expect them to be in stock around christmas!!! i had to get one with a small dial and hopefully it works out.

By: rooftop ridicule

rooftop ridicule — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:10:59 +0000

rad

By: Sportsmans Paradise

Sportsmans Paradise — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:33:29 +0000

Speaking of fishing. Check this site out.

By: WaveJam

WaveJam — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:28:45 +0000

Hi all… You may want to check out this video and demo if you want to see another fish tank feeder project. It does the feeding and a whole lot more. Doesn’t require a PC on all the time and you can basically access/control your tank via PC or iPhone over the internet. Its at: http://tinyurl.com/tankvideo Enjoy…

By: Mark at Fish Aquariums

Mark at Fish Aquariums — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:25:16 +0000

How very cool! Why didnt i tihnk of that, going to try and rig something similar up here.

By: canada fly in

canada fly in — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:19:47 +0000

Cool I’m going to start on this soon so I can feed my fish while I’m on vacation.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:08:26 +0000

How can I link to this site on my blog?

By: sportsmansparadiseonline.com

sportsmansparadiseonline.com — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:55:08 +0000

sweeeeet

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:37:33 +0000

Nice :)

By: jimmys

jimmys — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:44:23 +0000

love it! Nice job keeping it simple. it could be improved and made more complicated but why?

By: Anthony Fiumara

Anthony Fiumara — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:36:14 +0000

It’s nice to see the /actual/ hacks every once in awhile. If the picture isn’t black and white with the Polaroid border, I don’t even read the articles anymore.

Also, cool hack. My friend’s dad did the same type of thing to feed his pigs, he took a metal wheel thing (the tire sits on? Not sure what its called.) and welded about 6 walls inside it, so that it was built like a waterwheel, and he attached it to an older electric motor. After some adjustments, it would load the proper amount of food and dispense it at certain intervals.

By: Shane Andrusiak

Shane Andrusiak — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:20:24 +0000

Nice work Doc Brown.
I’m not really sure I’d want to go that far unless I wasn’t going to be around for a few days. I like feeding them and watching them eat so I think this may take away from that part of the experience in having fish.
Unless you maybe hooked it up to a webcam and remote connection of somekind so you could feed and watch whenever where ever.