The Oxford Flood Network uses a network of ultrasonic sensors in a flood-prone area to detect water levels and broadcast their data over short distances to Raspberry Pi-based gateways; these aggregate the data and pass it to an open online…
Category: Nature
Listening for bats using a Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi Foundation have blogged about this great project from Germans Holger and Henrike Körber. They are using a USB high-sensitivity microphone to pick up on bat calls. This is plugged into a Raspberry Pi which records the data and allows them…
Detecting pollution with a duck and a Raspberry Pi
Teenagers Ben Hope, Harri Bell-Thomas and Benedict Allen from Monmouth teamed up at Young Rewired State’s Festival of Code at the end of July to create Buoy. Buoy is a small, autonomous boat shaped like a duck which records environmental conditions on…
Marine ecology monitoring using the Raspberry Pi
A team from the University of São Paulo in Brazil have developed an open-source solution for monitoring marine habitats. The device, known as a Passive Acoustic Monitoring device, is a sonic spectrometer which measures underwater audio signals and records them, thus allowing researchers…
3D-printable weather-proof case for the Raspberry Pi
Prajakta Bhambare has designed a weatherproof case for the Raspberry Pi that you can 3D-print. You’ll need to get things like the waterproof rubber seal yourself, but it’s a great idea if you want to set-up a security or nature camera.…
Pigeon racers unite – photo-finish photographs with the Raspberry Pi
Robert Threet is a pigeon racer from Evansville, Indiana. He has added to the high-tech equipment used for recording pigeon arrivals (RFID tags – very swish) – a Raspberry Pi with a motion detector that triggers the attached Pi camera to take a photograph.…
Levitating chickens with a Raspberry Pi
Darren Steele came back after a holiday to find that a fox had eaten all his chickens. Undeterred, Darren bought more chickens and decided to come up with a way to protect them from the predators. His solution? Hook a…
Naturebytes Wildlife Camera kit – watch wildlife with the Raspberry Pi
This is a nicely thought-out Kickstarter which puts the Raspberry Pi Camera Module to good use to capture pictures of wildlife. The unit comes in a weatherproof case with holes in the front for the camera lens and a PIR…
Raspberry Pi dog monitor – with lasers!
Dave Young wanted to stop his dog from jumping up and taking food off the kitchen work surfaces (I can sympathise!) when he wasn’t in the room. So, he hooked up a laser detector circuit to a Raspberry Pi and programmed…
Raspberry Pi clock and weather display
Kevin Uhlir has taken a Raspberry Pi and a large HDMI screen and then programmed the Pi to use the Weather Underground API to create a clock and weather monitor. The software will run on Windows, MacOS and Linux as long…