Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

What is the energy label of this frame?

What a cool idea. I might have to give this one a try. I've got Raspberry's coming out the wazoo.

This is amazing project, thanks for sharing

This is amazing, well done! It would be a great travel piece

I love this! I have a forest garden with lots of birds. I so want to try this project asap!

I love this new era of AI powered creativity. I expect we're just getting started.

well this is a AI put to great use! love it

damn this is one of best things I've seen in a while

Really interesting!! Awesome work

Cool Project!! I like it

what's the most unusual bird it's picked up so far?

You should partner with Cornell Ornithology.

I am buying an e-ink display just to try this!

Reminds me of Arthur's jounal

oh I need to build this for my mom she would love it!

Super fun project!

Most whimsical application of local ai so far

ok. a similar idea, you should put a camera outside your door and do the same for passing dogs.

Why isn't this a thing on Amazon I can buy?

Now could you make one for urban noises? (e.g. traffic, trash truck, drunk guys at 3AM etc)

coolest implementation of ai application case that i ve seens last months

I love it.

People are so creative.

breaking this by putting it in earshot of a lyrebird

this is amazing. really awesome

Artig! :)

Here is another "I love it" comment.

Genuinely giving the OP props

this is very creative, really cool idea!

cool project!

This is amazing. I want to build this. Curious about the authors “full garden” link, surely he doesn’t get that many birds in such a small space of time in his garden, unless he lives next to a park I suppose?

intresting!

cool proj

Now this is why I come here!

Amazing thing, will replicate.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

super stylin’

Nice launch, good luck out there.

incredible creativity and inspiring. thanks for sharing this !

Author here. A mic listens to the sounds in my garden, BirdNET-Go (an open-source BirdNET classifier) detects birds by sound, and the e-ink frame draws a real 1800s natural-history illustration of each one as it hears them. Here’s a live web-demo from my garden in Bergen, Norway: https://fugleramme.arnegiacomo.dev

A few things that might be interesting:

- The screen only redraws when the set of birds changes, and dithers the collage down to six colours for the e-ink display.

- Bigger birds sit toward the centre, scaled by real body mass.

- 800+ cutouts across 400+ species, each cut from a real public domain plate. All art is historic and human-made. Coverage is currently best for the Nordics, Britain and Germany (but other parts of the world are in the works).

- Runs fully local on a Raspberry Pi or your homelab (yes, even the classifier runs great on a RPI)

The e-ink panel is optional and it can run web-only in a container against a BirdNET-Go you already have.

Happy to answer any questions!

Very cool, but IMO not mentioning https://theodore.net/projects/AvianVisitors/ as an inspiration is a very ugly move from the author

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