Hi,
I am doing a phd in chicken feeding behaviour and have just got a quote back for some operant equipment. £15000 - I nearly past out!!! I am now going to make my own equipment and just wondered if there are any engineers out there who's brains I could pick about purchasing a motor that could be used to turn a lazy susan carrying up to 500g feed and that could be interfaced to appropriate software to allow control via a chicken pecking a key! I have started looking at meccano sets, etc but engineering is definitely not my field...