10 foot tall robotic rooster?
The golf
cart is in a better place now.
I finally got around to
towing it out of our way to a spot near the barn today.
It might need to be re-built
in the future if gas prices become too high or I might cannibalize parts
off it to build a 10 foot tall robotic rooster to scare away deer.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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It wouldn't surprise me if you could find the plans for something like a "big dog" online in a couple of years.
Of course that'll never be as impressive as this hexapod.
Both are big, slow and noisy, though.
For practical purposes, a small quadcopter equipped with an infrared camera could probably be made into an excellent guard. It should be able to follow a pre-programmed route and e.q. make scary noises whenever its camera spots a deer.