It consists of a deck of bird cards, an audio player, and a card reader. Tapping a card triggers playback of one of the vocalizations associated with that bird. You can trigger a bird-of-choice to learn its calls, or pick a random card and
Listening to modern baseball games through the static of the past, via a Bluetooth speaker in a laser-cut housing modeled from a vintage cathedral radio.
Here’s the project write-up for a little cathedral speaker I made as a gift earlier this year. A Bluetooth speaker in a housing modeled off a vintage Cathedral radio, with one knob for adjusting volume and another for adjusting “vintage-nes…
All posts in the BirdNET-Pi series: Now that you’ve set up your BirdNET-Pi, perhaps you want to get texts whenever a new bird enters the ring yells in your yard? The BirdNET-Pi folks have made this trivially straightforward to set up, thank…
While I listen to a lot of music, my object permanence active recall is weak when it comes to remembering the artists and albums that I love.1 This didn’t used to be a problem, as flipping through my CDs or (later) scrolling through my iTun…
Not all projects are winners! Here is a write-up of BongoBoard, a project I’ve lost interest in completing: while the hardware part is done, the user experience leaves much to be desired. And it’s going to stay that way, unless someone else…
Not all projects are winners! Here is a write-up of BongoBoard, a project I’ve lost interest in completing: while the hardware part is done, the user experience leaves much to be desired. And it’s going to stay that way, unless someone else…
I turned it into a wireless Bluetooth keyboard by connecting it to an Adafruit ItsyBitsy:2 Never has it been more satisfying—or less private3—to type messages. Not since grade school have I been slower or had more spelling errors when typin…
I turned it into a wireless Bluetooth keyboard by connecting it to an Adafruit ItsyBitsy:2 Never has it been more satisfying—or less private3—to type messages. Not since grade school have I been slower or had more spelling errors when typin…
This pitch is for an app that does not yet exist1 and that I’m not currently planning to build,2 but that I would love to use. Please, take this idea. Build this thing.3 And then let me use it. Are you interested in playing music with other…
The goal of these instructions is to make it trivially easy to get a new BirdNET-Pi installation up and running on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. The instructions are intentionally verbose, written for folks who use computers but don’t necessaril…
It’s autumn here in the greater Boston area, and my bird neighbors have finally calmed down from all their summer yelling. Yours too? Sounds like the perfect time for any good birb creeper citizen scientist to set up a spy ring for snooping…