Installed a new bird detector in the garden.

[cloudthethings@hachyderm.io]

@jonty is it just a device that responds “yes”?

[gsuberland@chaos.social]

@jonty I never considered that this would be a thing that exists, but now you've mentioned it I'm like "obviously this exists and works quite well"

[gsuberland@chaos.social]

@jonty essentially the perfect use-case for classifier models

[jonty@chaos.social]

@gsuberland There's also a bat version! They're a lovely thing to have set up, you get to see when birds arrive on migration.

[gsuberland@chaos.social]

@jonty does the bat one use an ultrasonic mic?

[jonty@chaos.social]

@gsuberland Yep, but it turns out most decent mems mics will do these days and there are some nice projects that bolt a USB interface to them

[kieran@hom.ph]

@jonty my pi's been dead a while, had no idea this existed, thank!

[coldclimate@hachyderm.io]

@jonty the pi version broke my heart
Wanted it to work so much, and it was forever broken

[sa@chaos.social]

@jonty do they also make spider detectors?

[sarahdal@crispsandwi.ch]

@coldclimate @jonty did you see acoupi-birdnet? I mentioned this to someone else recently so apologies if that was you!
https://acoupi.github.io/acoupi_birdnet/

I had it running last year and it was great fun, and easy to use, had it posting detections to a mastodon account