Eavesdropping on Nature: DIY Bioacoustics is a project focussed on the fruitful entanglement of design, science, sound and the public sphere. Our goals are to advance both design and science by “thinking about the future of science in the context of design–as well as design in the context of science” and to prototype the process in a way which is in accordance with open source and DIY methodologies.
In collaboration with Alice Potts, Minwoo Kim, Davin Browner-Conaty, Cambridge University and the John Innes Centre Department of Crops Genetics.
We are developing an open source and DIY sensor/service for biologists, using sound recordings to identify and track different species of leafhoppers, to monitor crop health remotely. The sensor/service could also be utilised by citizen scientists, farmers and visual artists/computational designers.
The project is being approached through an antidisciplinary design framework. The production of the sensor will rely on entangling bioacoustics, citizen science, open source and diy technological development and public science.
The project is completely open source. You can find the updated harware schematics and datasets on Github.
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