Birdnet is really cool and super easy to set up on a Pi. It's great these kids did some science with it!
When I set one up on my screen porch, I used an off-the-shelf enclosure, an inexpensive lavalier microphone (after I tried a couple other things), an Apple USB-C audio adapter, and a cheapo USB-C to USB-A adapter.
now I have an other good reason to buy a raspberry pi or dive into ML. aarg. That's dope, even if analysis is done at home it's pleasing to see young people doing projects like that.
No, it doesn't. It uses RPi to record and upload singing.
> A microphone array is hooked up to a Raspberry Pi which is programmed to listen to ambient sounds, record bird songs, and show audio curves. The Pi then sends that data to BirdNET Sound ID at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology for analysis.
But the next link https://sarsef.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Finnegans-Proj... says "The computer is programmed to listen to ambient sounds, record bird
songs, show audio curves, and send all data to BirdNET at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology for analysis in order
to determine what kind of bird is present in a specific location".
I recently upgraded mine from a Pi 3 to a 4. Its pretty impressive, even with some pretty rubbish hardware. A fluffy wind muffler for the mic is a good idea and nowhere near as exciting as they ought to be, with a name like that!
When I set one up on my screen porch, I used an off-the-shelf enclosure, an inexpensive lavalier microphone (after I tried a couple other things), an Apple USB-C audio adapter, and a cheapo USB-C to USB-A adapter.