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Mothbox 4.0

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277 points bookofjoe | 9 comments | 15 Oct 24 14:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.988s | source | bottom
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nerdponx ◴[15 Oct 24 14:54 UTC] No.41849257[source]▶
Are there any "citizen science" initiatives where I can buy a device like this and upload my insect counts to some database that's useful for researchers?

I have been interested in setting up some things like home weather monitoring, ADS-B, streaming webcams for wildlife, etc. anyway so this would be a fun item to add to that.

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1. gibspaulding ◴[15 Oct 24 15:38 UTC] No.41849694[source]▶
Cornell is doing something along those lines for birds using audio recordings. It’s just a smartphone app though - https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/sound-id/
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2. beardyw ◴[15 Oct 24 15:57 UTC] No.41849903[source]▶
I was using it today, and any day when there are birds around. It correctly identifies birds you can barely hear. It's become as useful as binoculars to me. A great free app.
3. dekhn ◴[15 Oct 24 20:35 UTC] No.41852826[source]▶
they also release the model. I've recorded hours of audio outside my house and run it through the model on my desktop with GPU.
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4. buescher ◴[15 Oct 24 21:51 UTC] No.41853491[source]▶
I have a pi running birdnet-pi on my porch. https://www.birdweather.com/birdnetpi
5. abroadwin ◴[15 Oct 24 21:54 UTC] No.41853511[source]▶
Are they using birdnet or something else?
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6. dekhn ◴[15 Oct 24 23:08 UTC] No.41854038{3}[source]▶
sorry, yes, I'm referring to birdnet.
7. adolph ◴[16 Oct 24 18:11 UTC] No.41861964[source]▶
Here is the related hardware widget. $200 with a $59/year service for alerts etc.

https://haikubox.com/

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8. adolph ◴[16 Oct 24 18:25 UTC] No.41862122[source]▶
Something of note that creators like that of Mothbox might find interesting (if they didn't already know), Haikubox was awarded about $1m from the NSF: SBIR Phase II: Building a Nature Monitoring Network for Birds [0]. More about the awarding NSF "directorate" here [1].

0. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2135664&His...

1. https://new.nsf.gov/tip/latest

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9. hikinghack ◴[16 Oct 24 20:36 UTC] No.41863589{3}[source]▶
Oh thanks for sharing this!