MeFi Projects

The Australian Acoustic Observatory has 360 microphones across the continent, and over 2 million hours of audio. However, none of it is labeled: We want to make this enormous repository useful to researchers. We have found that researchers are often looking for 'hard' signals - specific call-types, birds with very little available training data, and so on. So we built an acoustic-similarity search tool, allowing researchers to provide an example of what they're looking for, which we then match against embeddings from the A2O dataset. [more inside]
posted by kaibutsu on Dec 1, 2023 - 5 comments

I used Maker_Mobile's "Laser Cut Frank Lloyd Wright Window Lamp" as the starting point for this. Added a bottom tray, soda bottle to hold seeds, and a top. I can't figure out if I should put a hook in the top to hang it, or mount it on a fence pool.
posted by Marky on Apr 28, 2023 - 1 comment

A mathematically-defined picture of a bird. [more inside]
posted by mpark on Apr 5, 2020 - 0 comments

I am drawing all of the US presidents as birds, or maybe vice versa? Bird Presidents, in any case. I'm doing about one a day and drawing them in order.
posted by cortex on Feb 5, 2013 - 10 comments

I made this tool to help violate Twitter brand guidelines. Enjoy!
posted by bertrandom on Jun 7, 2012 - 5 comments