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How Bats Prevent Doppler Acoustic Interference
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (37+ words) [caption id="attachment_1155537" align="alignright" width="400"] Lesser horseshoe bat. (Credit: Lylambda, Wikimedia)[/caption] As great as echolocation is, things can get rather messy once it's not j......
The Birds Outside, Drawn For You Automatically
1+ week, 2+ day ago (42+ words) With artificial intelligence being the bête noir of the moment, there are some projects using it which maybe don't bring much to the table. So it's nice to see one that uses it in a creative way, and......
bird identification – Hackaday
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (217+ words) Avian Visitors is a lovely project by [Teddy Warner] that uses a Raspberry Pi and microphone to keep track of which birds have been visiting your home, and creates a colorful illustration of recent visitors on top of it all....
Track Bird Visitors With A Raspberry Pi And A USB Mic
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (35+ words) Avian Visitors is a lovely project by [Teddy Warner] that uses a Raspberry Pi and microphone to keep track of which birds have been visiting your home, and creates a colorful illustration of recent vi......
V Formation Flying Of Birds Is Explained By A Minimal Wake–Vortex Model
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (33+ words) Although it's commonly suspected that migratory birds fly in a 'V' formation due to this saving energy for the birds in the slipstream, understanding the exact aerodynamics behind this and how it affe......
How Octopuses Hacked Their Ribosome To Become Smart
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (214+ words) Hackaday A fascinating aspect in evolutionary biology is that of convergent evolution â whereby similar structures and functions evolve independently from each other The highly advanced nervous system of octopuses is a good example here, displaying levels of intelligence and…...
Do Metal Roofs Turn A Bird House Into An Oven?
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (40+ words) Birdhouses can be a great way to help out nesting birds in your area, but they can be a bit intensive to make. As part of a 500 birdhouse marathon, [Of Human and Nature] decided to test whether a meta......
Patterns Everywhere
3+ mon, 11+ hour ago (36+ words) I studied physics in college, and I’m always surprised how fundamental some of the concepts are. Take waves for example. You really wouldn’t expect the same underlying concept to be at work on sur......
Adorable ASCII Aquarium Lives On Your Desk
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (205+ words) [Kert Gartner]’s ASCII Aquarium turns a cheap yellow display (CYD) into a tiny simulated aquarium, complete with ASCII sea creatures each with their own behaviors. There’s all kinds of options and even timekeeping functionality, so the miniature water world…...
Robot Bird Decoys Work For Good
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (299+ words) Usually, you think of bird decoys as being a tool to lure birds to an untimely encounter with a hunter. However, [Interesting Engineering] has a story about robotic bird decoys in Grand Teton National Park that are helping restore the…...