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Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
E-ink bird frame for Raspberry Pi - real-time bird detection by audio, fully local AI, rendered as real, hand-cut 1800s bird illustrations.
Sorry about the dirty window - squirrels have been stealing the bird food.
Still in early development: expect the odd bug and a few unpolished edges, with plenty more features to come.
Live on fugleramme.arnegiacomo.dev running from my kitchen window and displaying the actual birds currently heard in my garden (Bergen, Norway).
Hardware, install and operations docs: arnegiacomo.dev/fugleramme
BirdNET-Go listens on a mic and handles the
classifier. Fugleramme polls its api, matches each species to
an illustration, then packs them onto a page, and redraws only when the birds change - on
an Inky Impression e-ink panel, and
as a web kiosk serving the same view. There's an admin page that lets you configure what
to show, and automatic updates and such.
If you already run BirdNET-Go, point the frame at it instead - on the same machine or anywhere else reachable from your network.
The e-ink panel is not required, although it's recommended for the intended experience. Without one, Fugleramme runs web-only - show the
kiosk on a display over HDMI, or open it from any device on the network.
A Raspberry Pi 5, an Inky Impression 13.3"
(Spectra 6), a mic and an A4 frame. Full parts list, recommendations and alternatives: Hardware.
Half the point of this project is showing off some amazing public-domain natural-history
illustrations. Over 800 cut-outs covering more than 400 species, every one taken from a
real plate and hand-curated for this project (no art is AI-generated, though some has been
retouched with AI).