> If price weren’t a constraint, I immediately would have chosen a cellular IoT board like the Particle Electron or Boron ($50). Connectivity to the cloud provides several advantages:

I think we should question whether tech as a whole is moving in the right direction when the first question for building a time-controlled, battery-operated chicken door opener is "how do I connect it to the internet?"

(Sorry for the sarcasm, otherwise, it's a really cool project though)