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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 more bee focused (more tubes…
- over 1 year ago
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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. It…
- over 1 year ago
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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…
- over 1 year ago
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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…
- over 1 year ago
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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 ambitiously…
- over 1 year ago
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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 applications…
- over 1 year ago
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BeeWatch: LoRaWAN Environmental Monitoring – Blog 11: Summary Conclusion

Gough Lui

Bees are definitely an important part of the ecosystem and play a key role as a pollinator of plant life, including that of crops, while also producing honey. The emergence of colony collapse disorder has revealed the complex challenges which bees are…
- over 1 year ago
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Honey Bee Safe: Bees, Hornets, and Blooms: rebuilding the model with bees and hornets

ntewinkel

Now that we have our "real" bee and hornet ready for showtime, I had to rebuild the Edge Impulse model from scratch using pictures of the new characters. The cast is ready for action! Behind the scenes on the set: I took about 50 images each of…
- over 1 year ago
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BeeWatch: LoRaWAN Environmental Monitoring – Blog 10: Nicla Vision Power, Saving B’s & Dashboard Woes

Gough Lui

As we count down the days to the end of the Save the Bees Design Challenge, a regret I carry from my last post is that I didn’t attempt any AI-based inferencing now that I have a Nicla Vision board in my hand. In this post, we’ll try to change this while…
- over 1 year ago
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Bee Monitoring: Bee Hive Environmental Monitoring using Arduino MKR 1310

aaryan2134

Blog List: 1. Bee Monitoring: Introduction 2. Bee Monitoring: System Design & Workflow 3. Bee Monitoring: Setting up Nicla Vision 4. Bee Monitoring: Training the Model & Inferencing 5. Bee Monitoring: Bee Hive Environmental Monitoring using…
- over 1 year ago
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Bee Monitoring: Training the Model & Inferencing

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Blog List: 1. Bee Monitoring: Introduction 2. Bee Monitoring: System Design & Workflow 3. Bee Monitoring: Setting up Nicla Vision 4. Bee Monitoring: Training the Model & Inferencing 5. Bee Monitoring: Bee Hive Environmental Monitoring using…
- over 1 year ago
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Bee Monitoring: Setting up Nicla Vision

aaryan2134

Blog List: 1. Bee Monitoring: Introduction 2. Bee Monitoring: System Design & Workflow 3. Bee Monitoring: Setting up Nicla Vision 4. Bee Monitoring: Training the Model & Inferencing 5. Bee Monitoring: Bee Hive Environmental Monitoring using…
- over 1 year ago
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Bee Monitoring: System Design & Workflow

aaryan2134

Blog List: 1. Bee Monitoring: Introduction 2. Bee Monitoring: System Design & Workflow 3. Bee Monitoring: Setting up Nicla Vision 4. Bee Monitoring: Training the Model & Inferencing 5. Bee Monitoring: Bee Hive Environmental Monitoring using…
- over 1 year ago
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Honey Bee Safe: Bee More Bee-like

ntewinkel

This is the moment we've all been waiting for: it's the unveiling of the much more bee-like and much more hornet-like art stand-ins for our project!! Say hello to our little bee: And... Say hellloooo to our little friend, the murder hornet!…
- over 2 years ago
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Bee Healthy - Blog 13: Save the Bees Design Challenge Summary

ralphjy

Node-Red Dashboard - Final Configuration I changed the way that I display the inference data. First, I had to reduce the upload frequency to once every 80 seconds because the reduced RSSI due to the gateway distance to the deployed sensors was causing…
- over 1 year ago
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Image Conversion to Integer Array for LCD Display

dougw

This is a blog showing how I converted images to 16 bit integer arrays to be displayed on an LCD. The Arduino code uses the Adafruit_GFX.h and Adafruit_ILI9341.h libraries to display these images. …
- over 2 years ago
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Bees Monitor With Predators Repellent # 10 - Summary

guillengap

Table of Contents Introduction Getting Started Edge Impulse Improving Edge Impulse Model Testing The Machine Learning Model With OpenMV Adding The Water Sprayer System Testing The Water Sprayer System IoT Ambient Monitoring System |…
- over 1 year ago
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Bees Monitor With Predators Repellent # 9 - IoT Environmental Monitoring System | Part2

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Table of Contents Introduction Getting Started Edge Impulse Improving Edge Impulse Model Testing The Machine Learning Model With OpenMV Adding The Water Sprayer System Testing The Water Sprayer System IoT Environmental Monitoring System…
- over 1 year ago
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Bees Monitor With Predators Repellent # 8 - IoT Environmental Monitoring System | Part1

guillengap

Table of Contents Introduction Getting Started Edge Impulse Improving Edge Impulse Model Testing The Machine Learning Model With OpenMV Adding The Water Sprayer System Testing The Water Sprayer System IoT Environmental Monitoring System…
- over 1 year ago
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The Lora & Husky Show

dougw

Intro This episode chronicles getting the Lora & Husky show live-connecting with the Crystal display. The Lora and husky hardware and software are fully functional, including a 3D printed chassis. This node views the scene with the Husky camera and display…
- over 2 years ago
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Honey Bee Safe: Saving Images of Hornets

ntewinkel

As there is always the chance of a false positive, I thought it would be a good idea to keep the images whenever a hornet was detected, so they can be reviewed by a person. I found a few articles on how to use MQTT to receive image data into Node Red…
- over 2 years ago
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Bees Monitor With Predators Repellent # 7 - Testing The Water Sprayer System

guillengap

Table of Contents Introduction Getting Started Edge Impulse Improving Edge Impulse Model Testing The Machine Learning Model With OpenMV Adding The Water Sprayer System Testing The Water Sprayer System IoT Ambient Monitoring System |…
- over 2 years ago
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BeeWatch: LoRaWAN Environmental Monitoring – Blog 9: Nicla Vision IR ToF & Audio Sensing, Data Dump

Gough Lui

After the last post went up, a comment from BigG let me know that I had indeed got something wrong, seemingly due to a bug in the new Arduino IDE. There actually are “bare-metal” examples in Arduino for the Nicla Vision board, so let’s take a look at…
- over 2 years ago
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Bees Monitor With Predators Repellent # 6 - Adding The Water Sprayer System

guillengap

Table of Contents Introduction Getting Started Edge Impulse Improving Edge Impulse Model Testing The Machine Learning Model With OpenMV Adding The Water Sprayer System Testing The Water Sprayer System IoT Ambient Monitoring System |…
- over 2 years ago
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Springtime Bees and Blossoms!

ntewinkel

The weather is warming up and we are starting to see blooms and blossoms in our yard! With bees and bee-like creatures back at work
- over 2 years ago
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