Collaborate Disseminate
The range of human hearing goes up to about 20 kilohertz, which is fine for our purposes, but is pretty poor compared to plenty of other animal species. Dogs famously …read more Continue reading Listening to Bats As They Search For Food
It wouldn’t be October without Halloween, and it wouldn’t be Halloween without some spooky music. There’s no instrument spookier than a Theremin, which also happens to be one of the world’s first electronic instruments.
You’ve no doubt heard the eerie, otherworldly tones of the Theremin in various 1950s sci-fi films, …read more
Continue reading The Theremin is 100 Years Old; Celebrating the Spookiest of Instruments
Bats use echolocation to see objects in front of them. They emit an ultrasonic pulse around 20 kHz (and up to 100 kHz) and then sense the pulses as they reflect off an object and back to the bat. It’s the same type of mechanism used by ultrasonic proximity sensors …read more
Bats are fascinating animals, and despite all the myth and creepiness surrounding them, they really remind one more of a drunk bird lost in the night sky than the blood-sucking creature they’re often made out to be. Of course, some really fall into that category, and unlike actual birds, bats …read more
Continue reading What Does The Bat Say? Tune In With This Heterodyne Detector
Bats are fascinating animals, and despite all the myth and creepiness surrounding them, they really remind one more of a drunk bird lost in the night sky than the blood-sucking creature they’re often made out to be. Of course, some really fall into that category, and unlike actual birds, bats …read more
Continue reading What Does The Bat Say? Tune In With This Heterodyne Detector