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Mothbox 4.0

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277 points bookofjoe | 3 comments | 15 Oct 24 14:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.638s | source
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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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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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1. 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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2. 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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3. hikinghack ◴[16 Oct 24 20:36 UTC] No.41863589[source]▶
Oh thanks for sharing this!