$80 DIY bird listening device creates painterly collages of avian visitors

Teddy Warner created Heard Recently, a website showing the birds heard near his apartment. Unlike our Bird Buddy (a smart feeder with a camera) it uses audio to identify avian visitors and doesn't require a subscription. > I mounted a tiny microphone on my apartment balcony to listen for any birds passing by and built a site to collage them as they're heard The software was built using Cornell University's BirdNet, which uses deep learning to recognize more than 6,000 species, and BirdNET-PI, an implementation that runs on inexpensive hardware. — Read the rest The post $80 DIY bird listening device creates painterly collages of avian visitors appeared first on Boing Boing.