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Most RC planes follow a simple control scheme: elevators for pitch, rudder for yaw, and ailerons for roll. This one-to-one mapping keeps things straightforward, and fewer actuators means less weight. …read more Continue reading Experimental Drone Flies Like A Bird
For those looking to build their own clocks, one of the easiest ways to get started is with a pre-built module that uses a simple quartz oscillator and drives a …read more Continue reading Customizable Bird Clock Sings The Hours By
In a lot of ways, it seems like we’re in the “plateau of productivity” part of the hype cycle when it comes to drones. UAVs have pretty much been reduced …read more Continue reading That Drone Up in the Sky? It Might be Built Out of a Dead Bird
Hedges aren’t just a pretty garden decoration. They’re also a major habitat for many species of insects, birds, and other wildlife. In some areas, a lot of hedge trimming goes …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: Hedge Watcher Aims To Save Precious Bird Life
Recently, we’ve stumbled upon the extensive effort that is the BirdNET research platform. BirdNET uses a neural network to identify birds by the sounds they make, and is a joint …read more Continue reading Neural Network Identifies Bird Calls, Even On Your Pi
Scientists who work with animals love to track their movements. This can provide interesting insights on everything from mating behaviour, food sources, and even the way animals behave socially – …read more Continue reading Magpies Help Each Other Escape Tracking Devices With This One Weird Trick
BGN Technologies announced the launch of the joint Israel-US consortium, ICRDE, in the field of cyber protection of energy facilities, for the purpose of promoting an R&D collaboration that will address cyberthreats on energy sources and facilities… Continue reading BGN Technologies launches Israel-US consortium for cyber protection of energy infrastructure
Jerry Seinfeld launched his career with Bee Movie, an insect-themed animated feature that took the world by storm in 2007. It posed the quandary – that supposedly, according to all known laws of aviation, bees should not be able to …read more
Continue reading Flapping Wings And The Science Of How Bees Can Fly
Despite epithets like “bird-brain,” our feathered friends are actually pretty smart. Being able to maneuver in three dimensions at high speed must have something to do with it, and the cognitive abilities of birds are well-documented and still being researched. So it naturally makes sense to harness avian brainpower to …read more
Continue reading Cleaning Up the Yard with AI — Avian Intelligence
The future of the musical instrument industry is in tiny, cheap, handheld synthesizers. They’re sold as ‘musical toys’. They bleep and bloop, and that’s about it. Korg may have just released the minimum viable product for this category, and thus the most popular product for this category. On the surface, …read more