Enclosure

Drawings

We cut our enclosure with a jigsaw out of a single 2 ft x 4 ft panel of 1/4″ thick plywood. You can download the design drawing here; the source files for the Adobe Inventor model they are based on are available here.

Assembly

The parts after cutting with a jigsaw.
The parts after cutting with a jigsaw.
Gluing the enclosure, part 1.
Gluing the enclosure, part 1.
Gluing the enclosure, part 2.
Gluing the enclosure, part 2.
Gluing the enclosure, part 3: inserting the seed window.
Gluing the enclosure, part 3: inserting the seed window.
Gluing the enclosure, part 4: gluing in the dowels in the electronics box.
Gluing the enclosure, part 4: gluing the dowels into the electronics box.
Assembling the electronics.
Assembling the electronics.
First seeding!
First seeding!
The bird feeder deployed and waiting for the birds.
The bird feeder deployed and waiting for the birds.

Lets birds leave you postcards.