I’m not going to explain why you need this. If you don’t know that already you don’t have your priorities right. Well oke here is the deal: do you know how long it takes to poke one of these chickens a whole day? Exactly! A whole day!

I don’t have time for that!

So I made a machine.

What I used to make it:

(Vintage) Lathe
Drillpress
Bandsaw
Disk sander
Cordless drill
3D Printer

[stating the obvious] The idea behind this machine is that it pokes the chicken, generating the squeaky sound, while you do other, less important things. [/stating the obvious]

On the practical engineer channel we take animal wellbeing very serious so I decided to make a silicone mold of my finger to poke the chicken. As close as the real thing..

My personal goal of the machine was to keep it as simple as possible while still fulfilling its function. Therefore I chose to use a simple rotary to linear motion mechanism to drive the finger. (Parts can be downloaded below)

The frame itself is made from 30 x 15 mm aluminium tubing that I screwed together using the 3D prints I made for the machine feet.

System specs: