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Save the Bees Mystery Prizes

dougw

I received a prize package from element14 today that included both the finisher prize and a mystery prize for my project on saving bees: Here is a video showing what was in the mystery package.... https://youtu.be/mRuHfhQ-lt0 Here is a link to my pr...
- 28 Jul 2023
Save the Bees Design Challenge - Finisher's Prize

ralphjy

I received my finisher's prize yesterday. It wasn't the Bee Hotel that I was expecting, but an "equivalent" Insect Hotel. I'll admit that I was initially disappointed because I was expecting to see something that was mor...
- 27 Jul 2023
Saving the bees old style - part 3

beacon_dave

The sun came out between thunderstorms here and the garden was soon like an airport again, so I thought I would try some different techniques for some close-up shots of bees. The results are in the gallery below. {gallery}Close-ups of ...
- 9 Jul 2023
Saving the bees old style - part 2

beacon_dave

Getting closer to nature. It was a busy day for the bees in the garden today; you might even say it was a hive of activity perhaps ? Wind dropped a bit but still a bit tricky for close-ups. {gallery}Getting closer to nature IMAGE TITLE:...
- 7 Jul 2023
Saving the bees old style

beacon_dave

I thought I'd share the results of my low-tech save the bees project with you. The rain stopped and the sun came out but it was a bit windy and these plants sway a lot. {gallery}Bees on Allium sphaerocephalon IMAGE TITLE: THEN IMAGE DESCR...
- 5 Jul 2023
Bees at Work in Oregon - Revisited

ralphjy

Back in March around the start of the Save the Bees Challenge, I had encountered a honey bee hive in a greenspace near an office building - Bees at Work in Oregon. Today, while I was out walking the older granddog, we walked by that same beehive...
- 13 Jun 2023
Winners - Save The Bees Design Challenge

e14phil

Save the Bees Design Challenge About this Challenge | Dates | The Judges | The Kit | The Prizes | Example Application | Terms & Conditions | The Challengers Save The Bees Winners – World Bee Day 25 Challengers, 106 Blog Posts, 297 Comm...
- 17 May 2023
Save the Bees - IoT Bee Hive Monitor - blog 5

rahulkhanna

Welcome to the #blog5 of IoT Bee Hive monitor. In the previous blog, we created a classification model to detect bees and implemented bee count using the FOMO object detection model. In this blog, we will discuss the bee colo...
- 29 Apr 2023
04 Blog: "Be the Savior for BEE the Savior" - Software and Final Setup

walleynp

So now my Arduino MKR Wan start sending data and also ESP32 and LoRa: Ra-02 start taking it with just receiving code. Analysis of honey BeeHive Here I am going to showcase and discuss the software part and the final project. The Co...
- 28 Apr 2023
05 Blog: "Be the Savior for BEE the Savior" - The Closure

walleynp

With this passing time, season changed. It's monsoon in my country now. During monsoon, flowers start to decrease. As a result, getting accurate and enriched data becomes difficult. I had to face hard times collecting proper information regarding my ...
- 28 Apr 2023
Sugar Shaking - a passive method to detect and remove external parasites in honey bee

vinayyn

Detecting external parasites such as Varroa mites is very important To save The bees. In this Project, In this project, I have to build a smart hive, in the hive entry I created a bee counter system using IR LED and Photodiode. once the b...
- 28 Apr 2023
03 Blog: "Be the Savior for BEE the Savior" - Connecting Hardwire

walleynp

Since I'm facing some problems such as-1. There is no Gateway server opened for MKR WAN in my country, 2. The frequency (868-915 MHz) is also restricted in my country for public use. So, My strategy to transmit data is using "Peer to Peer connection...
- 28 Apr 2023
Blog 4# Deploying Edge Impulse AI to OpenMV IDE

karthickiot

Edge impulse can be deployed in OpenMV IDE to run on the Arduino Nicla Vision hardware a set by set is given in the below link https://docs.edgeimpulse.com/docs/deployment/running-your-impulse-openmv
- 28 Apr 2023
Blog 5# Result and Conclusion

karthickiot

The bees are tracked using the Nicla Vision hardware in the serial terminal the Honey bees are recognized. community.element14.com/.../Bees-Monitor.mp4
- 28 Apr 2023
Bog 2# Hunting for the Nector and pollen's by bees

karthickiot

The major food for the bees is the pollens and nector which are product from the flowers of the plants . The pollens were available from the Sunflowers during the seasons of flowers farmer use to place the bee hives during those period for poll...
- 28 Apr 2023
Blog 1# Introduction on Save the bees design challenge

karthickiot

I am a hardware engineering and hobbyist working on agriculture, Industries, household products. In the current design challenge I would like to use the Arduino pro nicla vision hardware. Bees are one of the important insects which are helping to us ...
- 28 Apr 2023
Blog 3# Edge Impulse training for tracking Bees

karthickiot

The bees can be tracked by using Neural schemes and AI in this process Edge impulse is choose to run AI for real time tracking the bees.
- 28 Apr 2023
Honey Bee Safe: Wrapping up: Summary and Source Code

ntewinkel

This has been an interesting challenge, and it was fun learning about machine language models, using open MV and Edge Impulse, and playing with an artistically created stunt bee and hornet. We originally set out to use computer vision to detect bees ...
- 28 Apr 2023
Honey Bee Safe: Identifying Bees and Hornets “In The Wild”

ntewinkel

Having successfully built and tested all of the pieces of this project while connected to my computer, it is now time to try running it stand-alone. We can actually run anywhere where we can plug it in and connect to WiFi, but for ease of testing I d...
- 28 Apr 2023
ZinnBee Blog#07: ZinnBee Project Summary

flyingbean

I finally got to the finish line for Save The Bees challenge. I did assemble all the building blocks together and got a good run on the bench. Initial bench testing report of ZinnBee Project I assembled everything together and reviewed my previous ...
- 28 Apr 2023
BeeAInspector Blog #5: The model and the exciting main result :)

FollowTheWizard

Hi all, By applying the model we tried to follow the guide on arduino for image classifaction with Edge impuls. And as usual in engineering we found some challenges The first one was uploading pictures with the IDE: But do not worry if...
- 27 Apr 2023
Save The Bees Wrap Up - Blog 9

dougw

Intro This project has been a whole education into bees and and a real highlight is that the other contestants have been a great source of knowledge on the subject. I love it when a project results in this much new knowledge. My project was ambitious...
- 27 Apr 2023
Passive method to detect external parasites such as Varroa mites

vinayyn

Sugar shaking Sugar shaking of honey bees is a passive method to detect external parasites such as Varroa mites, Tropilaelaps mites, and Braula fly. It is a quick and easy method that does not kill the honey bees sampled. The method works by the fine...
- 27 Apr 2023
LoRa Transmission of Images

dougw

Intro This blog is part of the Save the Bees Design Challenge. Normally LoRa is not considered to be suitable for transmitting images due to its low bandwidth, but I am pushing on that boundary in this project to explore its usefulness in application...
- 26 Apr 2023
ZinnBee Blog#06: Arduino Nicla Vision Module Lego Lab

flyingbean

As mentioned in ZinnBee Blog#04, I did a LEGO lab via Nicla Vision. I found that the performance of ML from Edge Impulse classification was limited and the results were not quite good enough for ZinnBee project. I paused the LEGO lab until now. &nbsp...
- 26 Apr 2023