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Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s
illustrations
See also: _Avian Visitors_ -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343424 - May 2026 (20
comments)
Author : arnemunthekaas
Score : 2270 points
Date : 2026-09-15 12:31 UTC (2 days ago)
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| arnemunthekaas wrote:
| Author here. A mic listens to the sounds in my garden, BirdNET-Go
| (an open-source BirdNET classifier) detects birds by sound, and
| the e-ink frame draws a real 1800s natural-history illustration
| of each one as it hears them. Here's a live web-demo from my
| garden in Bergen, Norway: https://fugleramme.arnegiacomo.dev
|
| A few things that might be interesting:
|
| - The screen only redraws when the set of birds changes, and
| dithers the collage down to six colours for the e-ink display.
|
| - Bigger birds sit toward the centre, scaled by real body mass.
|
| - 800+ cutouts across 400+ species, each cut from a real public
| domain plate. All art is historic and human-made. Coverage is
| currently best for the Nordics, Britain and Germany (but other
| parts of the world are in the works).
|
| - Runs fully local on a Raspberry Pi or your homelab (yes, even
| the classifier runs great on a RPI)
|
| The e-ink panel is optional and it can run web-only in a
| container against a BirdNET-Go you already have.
|
| Happy to answer any questions!
| smeej wrote:
| Do you have your image source available somewhere? I'm not
| going to build this same thing, but I'd love to add some prints
| of birds to my shelves and, not knowing much about birds, it
| would help to have a set of pictures I could look through and
| go, "Ooh! This one!" and learn about them. It'd be a good
| jumping on point!
| arnemunthekaas wrote:
| Yeah, all art i attributed an linked in https://github.com/ar
| negiacomo/fugleramme/tree/main/assets/a.... Check the
| manifest for exact sources
| onionisafruit wrote:
| If I were to make one of these as a Christmas present for
| somebody in Texas, and I wanted to contribute work toward good
| coverage for the area, how big of a time commitment would that
| be? It sounds like the kind of hobby work I could get into for
| a few months.
| arnemunthekaas wrote:
| Less than you'd think, because you likely wouldn't need full
| "Texas coverage", you mostly need the birds that actually
| show up. BirdNET filters by location, you'll likely need a
| couple of dozen. Over the summer I've had about 40 visitors
| where I live.
|
| Right now the coverage of North America is relatively sparse,
| but the interest has been high and I'm hoping for some
| contributions.
|
| Edit: For North America the most obvious source is Audubon's
| Birds of America, which is public domain and should provide a
| lot of coverage. This collection includes some beautiful
| plates.
| firmretention wrote:
| This is such a cool idea and I want to build one. I wish I had
| this kind of creativity. I can do the hardware/software side, but
| great ideas elude me.
| away0g wrote:
| are you setting yourself up to record ideas as they happen?
| mungoman2 wrote:
| Now this is why I come here!
|
| Amazing thing, will replicate.
| jiwidi wrote:
| Isnt this a fork* of
| https://x.com/WarnerTeddy/status/2060018688645115964?
|
| https://github.com/Twarner491/AvianVisitors
|
| https://theodore.net/projects/AvianVisitors/
|
| Or maybe im missing to see is the same author? It went viral a
| few months ago
| tencentshill wrote:
| This one seems to be more North European focused
| jiwidi wrote:
| Its awful close with no attribution or mention of the
| original project, which should be the minimum i feel like.
| KaiserPro wrote:
| true, but we are assuming that the author is aware of the
| other repo
| arnemunthekaas wrote:
| Original author here. Fair point, this project was one of
| my inspirations, but I chose to take a different approach.
| This uses public domain natural history art and builds on
| top of BirdNET-Go which is a popular way of self-hosting
| bird-detections. (This is really a BirdNET-Go companion, as
| it cannot run without).
|
| I've seen other similar projects pop up like
| https://github.com/veteranbv/inky-bird-frame and https://gi
| thub.com/adamoberley/HABirdDashboard/tree/HABirdDa..., each
| with their own spin.
| jiwidi wrote:
| That's fair, and I totally get wanting to give it your
| own spin.
|
| I still think it would be good to acknowledge the
| original project that sparked the idea, especially now
| that you've mentioned it was one of the inspirations.
|
| Definitely keep going with yours and evolve it further.
| That's how good projects grow. But for a healthy open
| source community, I think we should make a point of
| crediting the people whose work inspires us. Otherwise,
| over time, it can discourage people from sharing their
| projects publicly in the first place.
| arnemunthekaas wrote:
| Thanks, I'll do that, and ofc link to this beautiful
| poster I have that actually originally sparked the idea:
| https://www.axelthorenfeldt.com/news/wwf-verdens-
| naturfonds-...
| hnbad wrote:
| Contrary to the Great Man version of how we mostly talk
| about history, scientific discoveries, technological
| breakthroughs and such have historically often occurred
| multiple times in multiple places often in close
| proximity time-wise but otherwise completely unrelated to
| each other. This of course makes sense if you consider
| that history seems to be primarily driven by material
| conditions (e.g. steam engines were known to Ancient
| Greece but their usefulness for industry simply hadn't
| occurred to them because they lacked the prerequisites to
| make them useful and neither economic efficiency nor
| access to cheap labor were significant enough concerns -
| plus there was no patent system of course).
|
| I'll leave it up to you to decide whether one should
| expect the demographic of this website to be especially
| invested in the Great Man narrative but trying to
| convince them that two people can independently have
| similar-sounding ideas involving similar-but-different
| technology is probably an uphill battle. Just be glad
| you're not composing music for a living because there's
| literally an entire industry built around the idea that
| it's impossible for two people to come up with similar
| melodies without knowingly or unknowingly copying
| eachother and that it's very important that one of them
| (or rather the company they had to sign a deal with in
| order to make any money off their music at all) 100% owns
| that exact melody and should be paid by anyone who wants
| to use it.
|
| Next time you have an idea you should just file a patent
| tbh - the insistence on prior art invalidating the work
| seems to be quite similar but at least if you're granted
| a patent you can shake down "copycats" for money.
| dotancohen wrote:
| > Contrary to the Great Man version of how we mostly talk
| about history, scientific discoveries, technological
| breakthroughs and such have historically often occurred
| multiple times in multiple places often in close
| proximity time-wise but otherwise completely unrelated to
| each other.
|
| My favourite example of this is calculus, followed
| closely by heavier-than-air flight.
| cyphar wrote:
| I think there is ample evidence that the Wright brothers
| were (unlike many other inventors) uniquely suited to
| solving the problem of heavier-than-air flight, as they
| solved several open problems that nobody was making
| progress on (the main ones being control authority,
| propeller designs, the scientific basis for wing designs,
| and the ability to test designs and practice without
| dying) -- they even discovered and solved previously-
| unknown problems (such as adverse yaw, something their
| contemporaries should've independently discovered if they
| were on the right track).
|
| A full rundown would be too long but [1] is a pretty good
| video going through the history of flight and how most of
| the other candidates for "first flyers" people bring up
| don't count and how it's difficult to argue that any of
| their contemporaries were even close to the Wrights.
|
| [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkpQAGQiv4Q
| arnemunthekaas wrote:
| Added, see README. Thanks for the feedback!
| carb wrote:
| I agree I would expect a reference. Another difference between
| this an AvianVisitors is the image sources. AvianVisitors is
| all AI generated with a consistent prompt, but OP's is using
| chiefly public domain images with retouching by AI as needed.
| jiwidi wrote:
| Yeah agree
|
| I understand OP is continuing the work and improving it as he
| sees fit, but that in my mind is a fork and should aknowledge
| the initial work that sparked it.
|
| Maybe i'm wrong tho and this is completely parallel work!
| Waiting for OPs reply
| arnemunthekaas wrote:
| Hi, yeah I'm not basing any of my coding or feature-work on
| that project. My biggest source of inspiration is actually
| just a paper poster I have hanging on my wall
| https://www.axelthorenfeldt.com/news/wwf-verdens-
| naturfonds-.... I wanted to make a version of that, showing
| the actual birds in my garden.
| delichon wrote:
| I accuse you of having good taste.
| martin- wrote:
| A fork implies that it builds upon code from another
| repository. I wouldn't use the word fork to mean "inspired
| by". I think it takes away from the effort that the author
| has put in. Anyone can create a fork of a project with the
| click of a button.
| wccrawford wrote:
| The new one appears to use real art from real humans, instead
| of AI art that was fixed.
|
| And just because 2 things do the same job doesn't make one a
| "copy" of the other.
| jiwidi wrote:
| My mistake for calling it "copy", should have said fork maybe
| (?)
|
| They are awful close to still require a reference to the
| original project imo. They are achieving the same output
| (identify birds and display them in a frame display all
| hosted in a raspberry pi) with that twist to how to generate
| the art.
| arnemunthekaas wrote:
| Author here: I'll take any feedback and critisism. I
| haven't based any of my work directly on his project, but
| will be referencing it as a similar one in the readme, as
| well as e.g. https://github.com/veteranbv/inky-bird-frame.
| p1anecrazy wrote:
| Please take my praise as well then :) what a wholesome
| project!
| jdiff wrote:
| What is "the new one"? The old one used AI, and this one
| seems to as well.
| arnemunthekaas wrote:
| Author here: It doesn't, well at least not art-wise. All
| sources are attributed in https://github.com/arnegiacomo/fu
| gleramme/blob/main/assets/a... and https://github.com/arneg
| iacomo/fugleramme/blob/main/assets/a...
| coinfused wrote:
| This is much appreciated! Thanks for making this decision
| stetrain wrote:
| From the link: "Half the point of this project is showing
| off some amazing public-domain natural-history
| illustrations. Over 800 cut-outs covering more than 400
| species, every one taken from a real plate and hand-curated
| for this project (no art is AI-generated, though some has
| been retouched with AI)."
| xgulfie wrote:
| Idk what "retouched with AI" means. Does it mean they
| used a segmentation model to cut out the shapes, or were
| they shoved through an imagegen and completely recreated?
| dzhiurgis wrote:
| At this point - does it even matter? AI photos are
| indistinguishable.
| xgulfie wrote:
| It matters to me because it claims to be "real, hand-cut
| 1800s bird illustrations" which is the whole appeal of
| this to me
| DavCreator wrote:
| https://xxcancel.com/WarnerTeddy/status/2060018688645115964
| bradly wrote:
| Fwiw an eink display is fairly common tech in the birdiverse. I
| also have a project that is the same thing.
| dang wrote:
| Thanks! That one was discussed a few months ago:
|
| _Avian Visitors_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343424 - May 2026 (20
| comments)
|
| I've put a link to the earlier project in the toptext above.
| fnands wrote:
| Very cool!
|
| I wish E-ink displays were a bit more affordable. The 13 inch one
| is PS229.50. Does anyone know why they are still so expensive, at
| least at large sizes?
| eckelhesten wrote:
| Patents and greed in a combination.
| pjerem wrote:
| You have to distinguish the fake color e-ink that are used in
| mass consumer products which are actually black&white e-ink
| plus an LCD layer and are expensive, and the real color e-ink
| where each micro capsule embeds 3 to 5 different inks of
| different colors.
|
| The latest are pretty complex devices, very slow to refresh
| (hence why they are not used in your e-reader) and also very
| expensive. But the rendering is way much nicer because it's
| real ink that is used to render the colors.
| blacklion wrote:
| They are used in book readers. Amazon Kindle Colorsoft, for
| example. Or I have android phone with such screen (though,
| not latest generation).
|
| Rather opposite: I never seen consumer products with two-
| layer displays.
| whiskers wrote:
| This project will work with a 7.3" display just as well - they
| are PS79.50! https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/inky-
| impression?variant=5...
|
| Disclaimer: I am the CEO of Pimoroni :-)
| fnands wrote:
| Yeah, the 4 and 7.3" prices are not bad, the jump to 13 is
| just large. That being said, the cost per area goes down, so
| it is also probably fair.
| whiskers wrote:
| Cost per area is pretty much what drives all display
| pricing. :-)
| tencentshill wrote:
| For a product that is made for creators and DIY, AI generated
| imagery on the product photos doesn't feel right.
| koryk wrote:
| I love the inky impression!
|
| I am using my 13 inch inky display for my own birdnet - I
| also posted this in another thread last week
| https://i.imgur.com/5XbM6bb.png
|
| I also bought 3 more 4 inch ones. Here is the first
| deployment next to the fish tank -
| https://i.imgur.com/nj8nKrS.png - I like this because I can
| stuff an rtl sdr in that box too, so it picks up nearby radio
| sensors in addition to BT. Real nice project screen!
|
| I usually only refresh the image on the screen every few
| hours. I love how the image stays even with no power.
| shellfishgene wrote:
| You can sometimes find old Nooks for cheap and they can be
| rooted to display static images, but it's not elegant.
| bronlund wrote:
| Artig! :)
| practicalsystem wrote:
| oh I need to build this for my mom she would love it!
| misetech wrote:
| I would like to build something which can do the exact opposite.
| Sounds from illustrations.
| nsbk wrote:
| Very cool, but IMO not mentioning
| https://theodore.net/projects/AvianVisitors/ as an inspiration is
| a very ugly move from the author
| arnemunthekaas wrote:
| Duly noted, I'll reference this, as well as other similar
| projects in the readme. Thanks for the feedback
| nsbk wrote:
| Fair! Also, I would love to build this myself as I'm moving
| out of the city and to the countryside soon.
|
| I'm based off Spain, so I'll be happy to contribute if I find
| missing Iberian and Mediterranean species, or if some cool
| feature idea comes up :)
| arnemunthekaas wrote:
| I'm actually currently working on implementing Iberian
| species, and added some yesterday. There's another user
| also contributing with some beautiful Spanish birds. Feel
| free to contribute if you have some cool visitors in your
| garden!
| zubiaur wrote:
| I thought it was the same person. That is how close this
| project is. Inspiration may be too soft of a word.
| dang wrote:
| Maybe for fairness we'll link to it from the toptext as well.
| dang wrote:
| Thanks! Discussed a few months ago:
|
| _Avian Visitors_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343424 - May 2026 (20
| comments)
| RGS1811 wrote:
| This is one of the most wonderful uses of AI I've seen in a
| while.
| telesilla wrote:
| I agree. It's such a pity Cats don't recognize images, would
| make for wonderful CatTV.
| meteyor wrote:
| I love this! I have a forest garden with lots of birds. I so want
| to try this project asap!
| lvl256 wrote:
| What would be cool is if you can put AI to identify individual
| birds. They all have different calls/voices, though largely
| indistinguishable to human ears. And you can name them and see
| when they come for a visit.
| bt1a wrote:
| Something like fpcalc for soundbytes? Neat
| scottndecker wrote:
| Why isn't this a thing on Amazon I can buy?
| qarl wrote:
| I love this new era of AI powered creativity. I expect we're just
| getting started.
| bix6 wrote:
| super stylin'
| dmitrij wrote:
| We could also leave fake images aside, go outside and try to
| watch the birds ourselves. Maybe even let the camera inside, just
| looking with our own eyes. Real nature. No intermediate.
| world2vec wrote:
| I do recommend a decent pair of binoculars and the Merlin Bird
| ID app.
| RobinL wrote:
| > Half the point of this project is showing off some amazing
| public-domain natural-history illustrations. Over 800 cut-outs
| covering more than 400 species, every one taken from a real
| plate and hand-curated for this project (no art is AI-
| generated, though some has been retouched with AI).
| stetrain wrote:
| You can in fact both have an interesting bird-based art display
| in your home and also go outside and watch birds yourself.
| Neither precludes the other.
| zabriel_goss wrote:
| An app like this would be used as augmentation rather than
| simulation.
| stronglikedan wrote:
| Or both. Why limit yourself?
| bottled_poe wrote:
| The next logical step is to have speakers for the backyard to
| simulate the wildlife that no longer exists.
| gigantino wrote:
| Now could you make one for urban noises? (e.g. traffic, trash
| truck, drunk guys at 3AM etc)
| poutrathor wrote:
| My granny is almost deaf and I will test the idea for her, for
| she loves birds
| lateatdesk wrote:
| If you try it with her, I'd love to hear what she makes of it.
| reedlaw wrote:
| Frigate, the IP camera security system, also does bird
| classification:
| https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/bird_classification...
| originalvichy wrote:
| Thanks for sharing. Didn't know about this project. Have you
| used it yourself? I've only experimented with Scrypted for fun,
| but Frigate sounds like I could operate birdsong analysis
| without a separate BirdNET container.
| reedlaw wrote:
| I have Bird Classification enabled in the settings, but so
| far haven't seen any labelled (it's only been a few days).
| Similarly with Face Recognition, I've only seen false
| positives. It does reliably detect people though (300 tracked
| so far). I'll have to experiment with settings such as
| confidence score.
| reedlaw wrote:
| Turns out Frigate uses visual classification only. Hard to
| trigger when birds are so small, unless they fly right up to
| the camera perhaps.
| gabzofar wrote:
| That's a blatant copy of
| https://theodore.net/projects/AvianVisitors/, please.
| darvo31 wrote:
| Love the aesthetic of 1800s illustrations combined with modern
| tech. Wonder if it ever misidentifies a squirrel.
| eichin wrote:
| I haven't tried with BirdNet, but Merlin doesn't seem to ever
| false-positive on chipmunks or squirrels (there's been a
| suggestion that it _should_ explicitly recognize them, and
| maybe some frogs too, since they 're "loud thing in the same
| register" and it frustrates people that haven't figured it out
| yet...)
| joshstrange wrote:
| e-ink is so much fun, especially when combined with ESP32 or BTLE
| boards. I currently have 4 around my house displaying book quotes
| that I've highlighted in KOReader and they bring me joy each time
| I see them. They are simple and do one thing very well.
|
| I just got and setup a BTLE e-ink driver the other day and
| according to my calculations it will last _years_ on a single
| charge (2000mAh) even with multiple refreshes per day (crazy
| compared to the Wifi ones). Year+ lifetime completely changes the
| calculus for where to put these IMHO.
|
| I'm considering designing a multiple-screen "art" piece to hang
| on my wall and playing around with various ideas (on both content
| and design).
|
| LLMs + 3D Printer + e-ink is my new favorite hobby.
| buffet_overflow wrote:
| Years on a wall mounted eink screen sounds super interesting.
| What are you using for the power delivery/battery side of that
| setup?
| joshstrange wrote:
| Here are the parts I bought, I'm still getting it all setup
| (I have my pictures displaying, working on designing the 3D
| printed case now, and testing it all) but according to
| OpenDisplay's calculator [0] I can expect 3.4 years if I
| refresh the screen once every 4 hours (and currently I'm
| doing closer to once a day to mimic my ESP32s which need deep
| sleep and once-a-day refresh to get even month/months of
| battery on a charge).
|
| Screen: 7.5" Monochrome eInk / ePaper Display with 800x480
| Pixels (https://www.seeedstudio.com/7-5-Monochrome-ePaper-
| Display-wi...)
|
| BTLE board: XIAO ePaper Display Board(nRF52840) - EN05
| (https://www.seeedstudio.com/XIAO-ePaper-Display-Board-
| nRF528...)
|
| Battery: 3.7V 2000mAh -
| (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FR9GH966)
|
| Picture of it all assembled (no case yet):
| https://cs.joshstrange.com/zJFvGGPB
|
| The image rendered to the screen is coming from a little
| service I wrote that renders a book quote it pulls from
| BookOrbit which syncs with KOReader (annotations, progress,
| etc). My plan is to set up one of these one each
| bookshelf/series rotating quotes I highlighted from the
| series.
|
| Here are 2 ESP32-based screens I have, the one on the left is
| a an all-in-one [1] and the one on the right I printed the
| case from the TRMNL DIY kit from SeeedStudio [2]:
| https://cs.joshstrange.com/knk4Ns2h
|
| Right now only the BTLE one is running OpenDisplay (the other
| two are semi-managed by HomeAssistant ESPHome) and all the
| devices are in HA for controlling them, though the ESP32's
| all deep-sleep for saving battery so I can can't "push" stuff
| to them like I can the BTLE one.
|
| [0] https://opendisplay.org/index.html#battery
|
| [1] https://www.seeedstudio.com/reTerminal-E1001-p-6534.html
|
| [2] https://www.seeedstudio.com/TRMNL-7-5-Inch-OG-DIY-
| Kit-p-6481...
| realcul wrote:
| If I want a wifi e-ink connected display - curious what
| would you recommend. I want an e-ink display - that I can
| use as a sign/display board with wifi connectivity and
| remote administration.
| joshstrange wrote:
| If you want a simple e-ink wifi screen I'd point you at
| the reTerminal e1001 [0] if that size works for you. It's
| the easiest to get started with. You can either keep it
| on power or use the deep sleep to get more from the
| battery. It really comes down to how often you want to
| update it.
|
| The BTLE boards have just crazy higher battery time with
| no need for deep sleep which is why I'm moving in that
| direction.
|
| ~7.5" is the size I've been buying so far, the larger
| e-ink screens get pricey but I can't wait for a calendar-
| sized one to come down in price such that I can frame it
| and hang it on the wall. Lastly I'd avoid the color e-ink
| screens unless you know you need color, won't need to
| refresh it often, and it's not in your eye line. Color
| refreshes take way longer (~30s in my experience for a
| 5-6 color screen) and the flashing it has to do is
| obnoxious. Monocolor displays take <2s normally and a
| single flash. I got a color screen first because "why
| not?" and I got color, but the refresh was too annoying
| so now it refreshes once a day in a place that I'm not
| when it refreshes so I don't have to see it.
|
| I also recommend you check out OpenDisplay for what you
| will run on the device:
| https://opendisplay.org/index.html
|
| [0]
| https://www.seeedstudio.com/reTerminal-E1001-p-6534.html
| tranceylc wrote:
| When it does run out, are you able to replace the battery? Or
| is it something way more painful than that?
| joshstrange wrote:
| It's a rechargeable battery, I just plug the board in (USB-C)
| and it charges the battery.
| mikepurvis wrote:
| Thanks for speaking to the battery question; I'm very
| interested in how to run this kind of thing (the display
| portion at least) cordlessly too, especially when lipo pouches
| in that range are so dirt cheap.
| joshstrange wrote:
| I might be misunderstanding your comment but the display is
| run/powered by the board so all you need to do is provide
| power to the board. For e-ink it uses no power to "hold" an
| image, only to write/refresh (sorry if I'm telling you
| something you already know!).
|
| So reiterate, with a 2000mAh lipo battery I should be able to
| drive the board _and_ the screen for over 3 years if I only
| refresh it at most once every 4 hours (with "push"
| capabilities, I don't have to deep-sleep the board to get
| that battery life). At least, that's what the calculator
| says, I _just_ got my hardware to play with and so I can't
| speak from experience. Unfortunately my board is not charging
| the battery so I need to get a replacement which will
| probably take a week or two to get here.
| mikepurvis wrote:
| Yeah no we're aligned; I have some raspis that I'm
| interested in doing long term battery stuff with (remote
| sensing and the like) and it definitely does seem like
| connectivity is the huge battery killer, like even if you
| wake up only periodically to take a reading or update an
| epaper display, the cost in battery just to negotiate a
| wifi connection and do tcpip and http things is awful.
|
| And then you're stuck with a device that can only be
| communicated with when it chooses to wake up, whereas with
| BLE it seems you can listen for a remote OTA wake _much_
| more cheaply.
| shaklee3 wrote:
| It only can last a couple weeks, so isn't really
| practical. Search for other e-ink calendar projects using
| the rpi zero
| wallst07 wrote:
| For hanging as art, just found this
| https://github.com/dmellok/el133-pico-driver
|
| Uses a native C driver instead of python so you can run the
| display off a battery as it's more efficient.
| dzhiurgis wrote:
| I want a Japanese woodprint inspired colour dashboard for my
| Home Assistant. I don't need it at all, but I want it so badly.
| Some sketches I did with chatgpt look amazing.
|
| Colour e-ink are kinda small tho. Something like samsung frame
| tv might be better option.
| pnw wrote:
| Cool project! I set up an e-ink frame with this recently as a
| gift and it's been so much fun creating themed collections.
|
| https://github.com/defl/hokku_epaper
| its_ajseven wrote:
| Cool Project!! I like it
| Chuckles64 wrote:
| What a cool idea. I might have to give this one a try. I've got
| Raspberry's coming out the wazoo.
| _somu_ wrote:
| So cool, I'm going to try building one myself!
| MiloLeo wrote:
| This is such a cool project. My mom would absolutely love this if
| I made it as a gift. This may be a good project.
| jonplackett wrote:
| I was thinking the exact same thing!
| tencentshill wrote:
| Another dev offers it as a full product. OOS at the moment
| though.
|
| https://theodore.net/store/avian-visitors/
| InexSquirrel wrote:
| Was thinking this too. My parents are both avid birders, and I
| think it would make a fun addition to the house.
| abletonlive wrote:
| incredible creativity and inspiring. thanks for sharing this !
| ninefathom wrote:
| While I love this idea generally, the scope of the use of
| generative AI for artwork is too vague for my comfort.
|
| The README.md mentions that "no art is AI-generated, though some
| has been retouched with AI." Superficially, that sounds mild.
| Some of the other closely-related projects, however, use
| different verbiage, or none at all.
|
| For those of us with ethical concerns around generative AI
| application to artwork, much more detail may be needed before we
| could decide if this was appropriate for us.
| hirako2000 wrote:
| Could be for the montage. Is that unfair to say no AI generated
| the arts, but that AI put individual pieces together?
| jrflo wrote:
| What is the ethical concern in this use case?
| arnemunthekaas wrote:
| Author here: Fair, i could've been more explicit in my writing.
| Concretely:
|
| Every bird is a cutout from a real scanned 1800s plate (Gould,
| the von Wright brothers, Dresser...). The manifest (https://git
| hub.com/arnegiacomo/fugleramme/blob/main/assets/a...) links to
| each source, so you can compare them to the original scans. No
| bird has been prompt/diffusion generated, although I did use
| diffusion-based tools to remove birds from the perches (https:/
| /github.com/arnegiacomo/fugleramme/tree/main/assets/a...).
|
| Nothing at runtime uses AI either, at least in the sense of
| LLMs or diffusion. The collage is Pillow and numpy, and
| detection is BirdNET, which is a classifier, not a generative
| model.
|
| However I have used LLMs for code-related work, and for writing
| scripts for programatically editing the images, like cutting,
| contrast and colour corrections.
| jarek83 wrote:
| Cool project!
|
| On a side note. How do people deal with all the ugly mess birds
| cause in such settings? I'd love to have such thing but seeing
| all the white stuff on glass door does not really feel fun to me
| overall.
| originalvichy wrote:
| What do you mean specifically? These birdsong analyzers are
| sensitive enough that they do not rely on setting up a feeder.
| It's obviously dependent on where you live, but in the Nordics,
| living outside city centres is good enough for both background
| noise and birdsong from nearby trees/parks/forests. Privacy
| matters aside, setting a mic up on a balcony or window is
| enough. Another solution is feeding data from a cheap security
| camera with a mic through wifi. This way the camera can stay
| outside in different weather, it's not super close to you
| actual living area and splitting audio from the RTSP stream
| should be relatively easy to be analyzed by BirdNET.
| jarek83 wrote:
| Well I specifically meant having a bird feeder on a window or
| glass door for a chance to watch them live closely. That's
| why I put it as a side note ;)
|
| You gave me few ideas for the analyzer setup too - thanks!
| originalvichy wrote:
| Yeah that's definitely going to be messy. Based on your
| region, there should hopefully be generic security cams
| that can even work with a batter and solar. That combined
| with wifi if it can reach your house can hopefully steer
| the blast zone way further :D There's a few TP-Link cameras
| on discount around 100EUR that have 2k res. Feels a lot
| easier this way rather than taping together a weatherproof
| box for various components like the Pi and a mic. So far
| I've only used a plug-powered one since I have a IP-rated
| socket outside and the TP-link cam has a magnet for my
| wall. Hope you find a nice solution!
| eichin wrote:
| Sounds like you've got birds crashing into the door? That's
| often something that can be improved (with stickers or hanging
| decorations) that make the glass more perceptible to the birds.
| (Another thing that sometimes helps is having bushes or shrubs,
| or even potted plants, in sight of the feeder - most small
| birds will use a "staging area" and fly somewhere nearby first,
| "check out the scene", and then fly to the feeder from there;
| it doesn't really control the activity, but it adds some
| options.)
| rogerb wrote:
| Super fun project!
| thesurlydev wrote:
| Very cool!
|
| I can't help wonder what this would look like for humans.
| Imagine, set one of these up at a party and it has the means to
| identify anyone on the invite list. When it hears the person it
| displays a photo, brief bio, and relationship status.
| hugoj0s3 wrote:
| intresting!
| mandycult wrote:
| This is the sweetest thing I've seen in a long time :')
| pokerpatioteam wrote:
| cool project!
| sailfast wrote:
| I just happen to have an extra Pi and an e-ink display sitting
| around and I LOVE this idea. Going to try it on my screened in
| porch - we typically get 10-20 Merlin detections on a decent day
| so this could be fun!
| physhster wrote:
| All I'd get is pigeons and seagulls...
| hodder wrote:
| Amazing. Best post I've seen on HN in ages.
| theturtletalks wrote:
| So many bird projects recently and I think it's all thanks to
| this project[0]
|
| It seems IP over Avian Carriers is finally within reach!
|
| 0. https://github.com/tphakala/birdnet-go
| bithammerthunde wrote:
| Link missing?
| radiorental wrote:
| Complete guess but I wonder if it's the Merlin project?
|
| https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/merlin/
| shellfishgene wrote:
| Probably BirdNet, but Google also has an equivalent model now
| called Perch. https://birdnet.cornell.edu/
| divbzero wrote:
| _Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from
| magic._
| amelius wrote:
| What is the energy label of this frame?
| andai wrote:
| Chernobyl.
| mrbombastic wrote:
| this is so cool :) thinking about some remixes already with
| maritime traffic and tides
| agcat wrote:
| Most whimsical application of local ai so far
| divbzero wrote:
| The underlying classifier, BirdNET, is a traditional neural
| network and not an LLM:
|
| https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101236
| tuvix wrote:
| Are there any LLMs being widely used for audio classification?
| I know VLMs are being used a lot in image stuff.
|
| It always seems kind of silly to me to throw everything at an
| LLM. I know they're huge and can automatically handle a huge
| number of tasks but something in me finds it wasteful when we
| could be creating easily trainable, cheap to run bespoke models
| for a lot of stuff
| benob wrote:
| https://github.com/earthspecies/NatureLM-audio
| bix6 wrote:
| More info please. Can I add this into birdnet go for more
| species detection?
| lambda wrote:
| There are LLMs that support audio input, similar to those
| with vision support.
|
| From my testing of open weights LLMs with audio support, they
| basically are only trained to recognize audio as an
| alternative to text input, they treat audio as basically
| equivalent to a transcript, and can't recognize or
| distinguish things like music, accents, background sounds,
| etc.
|
| So they're only really good for transcribing or summarizing
| or using audio input in place of text input for prompts, but
| not anything that requires distinguishing any information
| about the audio that would not be present in a transcript.
|
| It can be tempting to try to use an LLM for a variety of
| tasks; kind of the whole thing about an LLM is that you don't
| have to do a separate complex training run for every task,
| but can just provide instructions in natural language. But it
| only works as far as what the training data covers, if the
| training basically always treated audio and a text transcript
| as equivalent, the model has nothing causing it to learn
| other relevant features of the audio. If there's enough bird
| call identification in the training data of an LLM, it might
| be able to do that, but I think multimodal training data
| tends to be much more limited than the text training corpus
| sbrother wrote:
| Have you had any luck fine tuning one with musical data for
| classification or music-aware QA? I've been hacking on
| https://trebel.la/ which I would like to be a music
| practice companion, and the biggest missing feature is
| actually useful audio-based feedback pipeline.
|
| My current approach, not yet validated, is trying to
| generate training data from masterclass recordings on
| Youtube, and then fine tuning MOSS-audio on a bunch of
| those. But I'm interested if there are better models, or
| large training sets I don't know about.
| MisterMunchkin wrote:
| You're selling a music feedback app and it doesn't do the
| music feedback part yet?
| sbrother wrote:
| I'm not selling anything; I'm developing it live and
| there is a landing page, but there's no payment hooked up
| since like you said, it's not functional yet.
| elictronic wrote:
| It's the first thing you see when opening the page.
| radarsat1 wrote:
| wav2vec or similar approaches are used a lot these days,
| which is basically BERT with audio inputs. Whether that
| counts as an LLM or not, I am not sure. It's a transformer
| architecture in any case.
|
| People _will_ often reach for "easily trainable, cheap"
| solutions when they can; the reason people reach for
| Transformers and LLMs is because when you throw more data at
| them, they get better.
| ninjalanternshk wrote:
| The harness that connects to a chatbot, API or voice
| interaction is the place to route requests to different
| systems. If you remember the early days of ChatGPT it
| explicitly said it was routing image generation to Dall-E
| after embellishing your request itself first.
|
| Determining which tool to use _should_ be a lightweight
| operation but I'm not expert enough to understand exactly how
| much lighter than a full LLM call just to recognize it needs
| a different tool or model.
| tuvix wrote:
| For sure, I just know it's tempting given the power of
| large transformers to throw things at an existing model.
|
| For instance, OCR is something that can be done locally
| with no access to a GPU but people (including me) still
| often use cloud hosted multi-modal large language models
| for it.
| antonvs wrote:
| There's still plenty of commercial work on specialized
| models, for the simple reason that they're typically much
| cheaper to train and run.
|
| Many systems now use LLMs in conjunction with specialized
| models.
| ada1981 wrote:
| Curious if there is a similar project for dog barks.
| lacunary wrote:
| I wanted to say that seems like a stretch but then I often
| find myself visualizing my best guess at the appearance,
| including species, of an unknown dog. It seems like size of
| dog and pitch of bark are negatively correlated
| nozzlegear wrote:
| I think it's because bigger dogs have larger throats and a
| bigger "voice box," so to speak. They have more of the
| vocal folds than a small dog, plus they have a bigger chest
| and larger lungs to force more air through them.
|
| That's my bro-science understanding of it, anyway.
| pgreenwood wrote:
| Yes, here's the classifier:
|
| def get_species(): return 'Canis familiaris'
| rexxars wrote:
| Note that while the underlying birdnet-go project started as
| BirdNET only, it can now use Google Perch v2, BattyBirdNET (for
| bats!) and other models in the future. It's a really cool
| project!
| cosmojg wrote:
| Why would anyone assume this uses an LLM? It classifies bird
| sounds, not human language. I don't mean this as an attack, I'm
| genuinely curious! This seemed obvious to me, and I want to
| know what line of thinking might lead one to believe that an
| LLM is the better (or more likely) tool for this job over a
| purpose-built classifier.
| WolfeReader wrote:
| Most "Show HN" posts these days are vibe-coded garbage. It is
| a pleasant surprise to see one that isn't!
| thomasfl wrote:
| As a fellow Norwegian I must say that this is pure art by the
| developer Arne Munthe-Kaas.
| CobrastanJorji wrote:
| I love it.
| albertgoeswoof wrote:
| I built one of these that shows the hacker news front page, nyt
| front page, my most listened to album of the last 7 days etc.
|
| Refreshes every hour
|
| Battery lasts a few months
|
| Esp32 and a colour eink panel, same as this one I think
| the_real_cher wrote:
| That sounds cool! Where did you get your color e-ink panel?
| albertgoeswoof wrote:
| I got https://www.waveshare.com/13.3inch-e-paper-hat-
| plus-e.htm from Amazon, about 300 gbp
| the_real_cher wrote:
| Thats cool thanks!
| zkmon wrote:
| Finally, we solved the problem of converting bird sounds into
| their pictures without involving human cognition. The great
| problem and the need had to wait for the great, ultra expensive,
| data-center-driven AI technology to appear on the horizon. AI is
| such a good technology that continue to solve many such great
| problems that humans desperately needed for their survival and
| progress. All at the a minimal cost of some effect on the
| climate, which may only slightly quicken the human extinction.
|
| Puzzlingly, no animal species requires AI, which is a mystery
| that need to be solved by AI.
| efavdb wrote:
| Do you not like AI?
| zkmon wrote:
| Well, it's not a fruit or food that I can eat. It's not a
| shelter, It's not a fellow human or a pet. So, hard to say if
| I like it.
| iambenm wrote:
| Hmm. The project uses BirdNET-Go, which does inference locally
| on a Raspberry Pi. Then it looks up the species against a set
| of already existing illustrations. So in this case it seems
| like the "ultra expensive, data-center-driven AI" is not really
| involved in the core loop of this project.
| zkmon wrote:
| The local inference is a product that came out of the data-
| center-driven AI.
| tossandthrow wrote:
| What a shame that we get a bird ckassifier by the samle
| technology we use to recognize cancer and other illnesses.
| zkmon wrote:
| What a shame that you use that excuse to offset all other
| evils of AI, without even having a hint of how many
| patients were saved by AI. Just like how oil salesmen and
| nukes makers say that they solve some great problem of
| the world.
| zzzeek wrote:
| > came out of the data-center-driven
|
| should we tell them how hacker news gets onto their
| computer?
| zkmon wrote:
| You assume that I assume that HN doesn't require data
| centers?
| dansitu wrote:
| This is incorrect; the local model is a small dense neural
| network called BirdNET that would not have been referred to
| "AI" when it was published in 2021. The model outputs a
| bird species probability distribution and the web
| application displays an existing image file of the most
| probable bird on the screen. This is a lovely example of
| simple, offline, and fun project using a straightforward
| machine learning model.
| zkmon wrote:
| Ok, so why didn't this small dense model come up, say, 10
| years back? Oh it needed all the AI evolution and
| concepts that were powered and evolved inside the data
| centers. But we still want to claim that it has nothing
| to do with the Big AI.
| 40four wrote:
| Incorrect. As others have pointed out, BirdNet is a
| "traditional" neural network. The amount of compute needed
| to train something like this is many orders of magnitude
| less than an LLM. Something like this could be trained on
| local hardware with enough juice, or by renting a handful
| of GPU's
| rcpt wrote:
| Amazingly unhinged response to the automated bird picture
| frame.
| jadbox wrote:
| This is the coolest thing on HN that I've seen in a minute. The
| whole thing is a perfect blend of ideas with the end result of
| something that feels... magical. Honestly this is the highest
| inspiration to me as a builder as I just want to create magical
| experiences, even if they are just small oddities.
| pelican0 wrote:
| _> This is the coolest thing on HN that I 've seen in a
| minute._
|
| Off-topic, but what is up with the increased use of the phrase
| "in a minute", presumably to mean "in a long time", lately?
|
| I've only started encountering it in the past year.
|
| Did it get popularized by some celebrity, tv show, influencers,
| etc?
| seanwessmith wrote:
| seems like you know what you're talking about 5k% increase
| starting in July this year
|
| https://trends.google.com/explore?q=I%27ve%20seen%20in%20a%2.
| ..
| bezmi wrote:
| I think the trend is probably misleading. A popular
| youtuber may have released a video in August with a title
| containing "in a minute".
| scheme271 wrote:
| It's been around in slang for a few years with a few
| variants, e.g. "I haven't seen her in a hot minute." I think
| it's just filtered into wider cultural vernacular.
| mrbombastic wrote:
| people have been saying "it's been a minute" to mean a long
| time since at least the 90s in NY
| kulahan wrote:
| Yeah, I've been saying hot minutes for decades myself!
| palad1n wrote:
| Scarlett Johansson says, "See you in a minute" in Avengers:
| Endgame.
| freehorse wrote:
| I say "see you in a minute" to mean "see you in a bit".
| What did Scarlett Johansson mean by that in that movie?
| devindotcom wrote:
| it's been around. I more commonly see it as "been a minute!"
| when you see someone you haven't seen in a good while.
| Carrok wrote:
| This phrase has been around for years, I know because it has
| always infuriated me.
|
| They took a well-defined unit of time, which is relatively
| short, and made it mean "some unknown but very long period of
| time".
|
| So frustrating. /oldmanyellsatcloud
| freehorse wrote:
| I had not heard it before (or if I did I did not interpret it
| correctly, eg if one told me "see you in a minute" I would
| interpret it as "see you in a bit".
|
| But there is this podcast discussing it in 2021, and it comes
| from black community slang from 70s (which is where most
| slang I encounter comes from). And these terms take a while
| to catch up usually, but it seems it was already circulating
| more broadly since 2000s.
|
| https://waywordradio.org/its-been-a-minute/
| Larrikin wrote:
| It's been a phrase for decades.
| hmartin wrote:
| Agree, this was really a beautiful thing to see!
| fock wrote:
| EDIT: no Ai for pictures - cool!
| sydd wrote:
| Really cool, except the price. Around 500 Euro for the full
| thing... I miss the times you could make amazing things with a
| Pi under 100 Euro.
| puzzlingcaptcha wrote:
| That's the e-ink monopoly for you. Though you could probably
| use a slightly smaller b&w eink display with a second hand
| raspberry 4 to shave a lot from that number.
| thepoet wrote:
| If you have a Kobo (~ US$ 120 or even less used) you can run
| this using Cobalt
| https://github.com/BandarLabs/Cobalt/tree/beta/apps/birds
| mars-or_wars wrote:
| The bird database seems only relevant for the UK and
| surrounding area.
|
| Probably would not show much in the U.S.
| nozzlegear wrote:
| BirdNET has great coverage for the US/North America. Part of
| its main training set is the Macaulay Library, which is also
| used by Merlin/e-bird.
|
| https://birdnet.cornell.edu
| lloydatkinson wrote:
| This is amazing. I want to build this. Curious about the authors
| "full garden" link, surely he doesn't get that many birds in such
| a small space of time in his garden, unless he lives next to a
| park I suppose?
| torcete wrote:
| People are so creative.
| zero0529 wrote:
| I was thinking about building this for a while and now i don't
| have too, insane. Thanks!
| TomJansen wrote:
| This project is super cool! But the price of the e-ink board is
| quite steep
| andatki wrote:
| Bryce Shivers and Lisa Eversman would definitely have this in
| their boutique. Put a Bird on It!
| bilsbie wrote:
| This could totally be a commercial product. I picture it being
| sold with a bird feeder. Maybe it uses a camera on the feeder.
|
| Then have the screen look like a biologists notebook where he
| sketches the bird and writes a few notes about the time and its
| behavior.
| herrherrmann wrote:
| A similar product would be Birdbuddy (a birdfeeder with a
| camera and logging functionality), albeit very commercial and
| closed-source.
| manuelisimo wrote:
| I am buying an e-ink display just to try this!
| thuruv wrote:
| This is an excellent execution and refreshing to see the thought
| process behind it. Kudos. the ideas such as these, gonna keep us
| swim sane and specifically extending far beyond the 9-5 is no
| longer sideProject category but refreshingly needed one.
| smnplk wrote:
| Needs to also have an alarm clock waking you with this
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4J1zyrW_VQ&list=RD-4J1zyrW_...
| :)
| catapart wrote:
| Awesome! It's really cool that it uses public domain images as
| the inspiration, too. And even cooler that you link to the places
| where you got those public domain images.
| worklifepanda wrote:
| this is very creative, really cool idea!
| simonjgreen wrote:
| I've been leveraging Birdnet-2.4 as well, but also ultrasonic-
| pass and activity-v1 to do broader detection with an ecological
| targeted microphone. This means I can capture not just bird
| sounds but also bats and some insects, and acoustic events such
| as jets and cars.
|
| Applying heterodyne transformations to the bat recordings makes
| them audible which is fascinating, especially when you catch them
| in a feeding frenzy.
|
| Similar intent with an indoor display, although nowhere near as
| beautiful as OPs eink display here. I'm more aiming for a real-
| time ticker, but this design is wonderful. I'm quite inspired by
| it!
|
| I've been working on this in the background for a few months, if
| anyone is interested repo with screenshots is here:
| https://github.com/simonjgreen/OpenObservatory
| swaraj wrote:
| >I've been leveraging Birdnet-2.4 as well,
|
| I love HN
| eointierney wrote:
| Yep, when it's humans nerding it's awesome
| blacklion wrote:
| Do you use AudioMoth embedded mic?
| simonjgreen wrote:
| That's the one, in their outdoor casing
| base698 wrote:
| You should partner with Cornell Ornithology.
| westoque wrote:
| ok. a similar idea, you should put a camera outside your door and
| do the same for passing dogs.
| ptoo wrote:
| [flagged]
| cluckindan wrote:
| German engineering at its finest.
| dang wrote:
| Please don't do this here.
| zzato wrote:
| coolest implementation of ai application case that i ve seens
| last months
| yiro13 wrote:
| Impressive, reminds me of this project
| https://theodore.net/projects/AvianVisitors/ I guess the author
| was inspired from there
| chris_armstrong wrote:
| breaking this by putting it in earshot of a lyrebird
| forcemajeure wrote:
| This is amazing, well done! It would be a great travel piece
| staub wrote:
| Any easy way to get started on your own version of this without
| needing a mic would be to pull birds seen nearby using the eBird
| API and pairing scientific names. Won't be as accurate as a
| backyard mic, but will give you a direction to start.
|
| Also if you have old e-ink device laying around, you can likely
| setup BYOD with TRMNL (or just buy one https://trmnl.com/) and
| send the bird images as a private plugin
| throooooo wrote:
| The e-ink screens linked by OP are much more interesting from a
| color reproduction standpoint. TRMNL devices are either
| grayscale or 2 colors.
| water-drummer wrote:
| Reminds me of Arthur's jounal
| brenainn wrote:
| I would love to build one as a gift but would need to get it
| working for Australian birds.
| apexalpha wrote:
| Just release some imported European birds. What could go wrong?
| redbell wrote:
| That's indeed a cool project and it's this kind of stuff that
| makes HN a unique corner in this digital world. I can classify
| this project with [1](Ranked #3 as the most upvoted Show HN of
| all time), [2](#4) and [3](#6) as non pure-software products that
| happen to also integrates hardware as well.
|
| The only thing I wish to be added is a short video showing the
| actual frame in action to express motion and sound so I can
| better feel it. While the provided image (hero.jpg) gives me a
| sense of the product, I just can't smell it yet. I visited
| https://fugleramme.arnegiacomo.dev/ hoping for a live feed but it
| seems just a static image.
|
| Kudos for the author and I hope we can see the next iteration!
|
| _______________
|
| 1. I made an open-source laptop from scratch
| (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42797260)
|
| 2. I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s
| (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48968606)
|
| 3. A retro video game console I've been working on in my free
| time (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19393279)
| learner_yearner wrote:
| Wow! Every human mind is wonderful in its own way. It can come up
| with ideas that other minds can't even comprehend.
| Lavanic wrote:
| cool proj
| kris-memoket wrote:
| Really interesting!! Awesome work
| mariusandra wrote:
| This is a very cool project!
|
| When I first heard of it (through a community member in discord),
| I wanted to see if I could replicate it on FrameOS (my software
| for running anything on an e-ink panel), and sure enough, I got
| quite close: https://scenes.frameos.net/s/bird-field-journal
|
| This is obviously nowhere as complicated as OP's project, but I
| thought I'd just share that your project inspired me to build
| something similar too.
| drum998 wrote:
| Awesome! I'm in the middle of setting up a birdnet system for
| audio recognition, and this is the puzzle piece my project needs!
| DylanMerigaud wrote:
| Nice launch, good luck out there.
| gadders wrote:
| I'd buy this if I could.
| techsystems wrote:
| Seems like a nice adjacent project to the magic mirror!
| asdojasdosadsa wrote:
| This is amazing project, thanks for sharing
| metchio wrote:
| this is amazing. really awesome
| rtvn83 wrote:
| This is amazing. I wonder if this could be connected to an LLM
| and render images of birds differently each time?
| sigvef wrote:
| Came across the Samsung The Frame variant last month too!
| https://github.com/simenf/birdframe
| simenf wrote:
| Cool project!
|
| For those of you that have a Samsung frame tv and no spare e ink
| screens:
|
| Inspired by AvianVisitors [1] I made a similar project [2] with
| an android app for bird detection using Perch, and then displays
| the birds detected during the last 24 hours with nice art on a
| samsung frame tv in "art mode".
|
| If you dont want to repurpose an old android device, my app also
| supports bird detections from birdnet-go and birdweather. It
| should be plug and play with this project.
|
| Have a look at [1] https://theodore.net/projects/AvianVisitors/
| [2] https://github.com/simenf/birdframe
| edwardbonnett wrote:
| what's the most unusual bird it's picked up so far?
| bilaly wrote:
| I am working on a voice-chat program and I implemented RNNoise
| this week. Most of the noise cancellation tools filter for just
| human voice. so bird noises that you want, may be gone when you
| are trying to delete the wind noise or something. And without any
| noise cancellation, It can be very hard to people who are living
| next to road or very noisy place.
| ryzvonusef wrote:
| a bit of a noob in these field, so apologies for the question,
| but why bird.net and not the more comprehensive cornell merlin
| dataset?
| jaackevans_ wrote:
| damn this is one of best things I've seen in a while
| pauleibye wrote:
| I think this is a cool idea but I would never want ai generated
| art on my wall.
| coro_1 wrote:
| Depends on the feel of the space you're working with, for me. A
| 8 x 10 bird sketch generator could work.
| arnemunthekaas wrote:
| Author here: it's not AI-generated. All art is public domain
| and made by real people. This project doesn't run generative AI
| models.
|
| See
| https://github.com/arnegiacomo/fugleramme/blob/main/assets/a...
| for all the sources
| sma3in wrote:
| well this is a AI put to great use! love it
| TheGoodBarn wrote:
| This is insane.
|
| Going to google/search and stuff when I get home, but for my
| current living space it would be awesome if I could get a
| wireless mic to place outside and have this run on my Beelink
| SER8, and then over local network sync to my Apple TV and display
| the images kinda like a screensaver?
| yipinwong wrote:
| Here is another "I love it" comment.
|
| Genuinely giving the OP props
| jacksun788 wrote:
| Cool project! Thanks
| dirkc wrote:
| I love an e-ink display project!
|
| The one thing that always trips me up in projects like this is
| power delivery in a way that I'm happy with. I always end up
| having a USB cable looking awkward somewhere or being limited in
| where I put my project
| sahn44 wrote:
| I'm also in the BirdTech scene. I detect birds and automatically
| spray them with a sprinkler to keep away from our pool area.
|
| code: https://github.com/mattsahn/bird-away
|
| writeup: https://mattsahn.github.io/bird-away-blog/
| nozzlegear wrote:
| Ha, I've thought about doing something like this but to keep my
| cats off the countertops in the kitchen!
| sandworm101 wrote:
| A neighbour of mine has five chickens... well HAD fier chickens.
| A hawk did away with #5 and damaged two more.. I wonder what this
| display would make of that series of frantic bird calls.
| SirHackalot wrote:
| Very cool idea, but I wanna be the one drawing. Why would I
| outsource the fun part to the AI? Classification is useful, but
| the paintings are the fun part...
| Wolfmans55 wrote:
| I love these super creative software + hardware project ideas you
| don't see too much of anymore!
| PigeonD wrote:
| Love this so much, cant wait to try
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