Count your bees with a Raspberry Pi and machine learning

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/05/31/surveillance-apiculture.html

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I tried, but I kept running afoul of the Heisenberg Apiary Principle. I couldn’t count the bees without killing them.

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Have you tried raising your bees in a Schrödinger’s box? (Not a Schrödinger’s catbox, the other kind.) It works great so long as you don’t open the box.

Update: added Wikipedia link.
Update 2: added missing word “you”.

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I first read this as farting and got excited. “Bees farting!” I thought to myself. Then I re-read it, and was disappointed.

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I guess this answers the old, “Two bees or not two bees?”

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What’s this? A thread trying to determine if it’s properly populated with bees?

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That gif is shooped, it’s the same couple of bees repeated, I can tell by the pixels! Fake news!

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Too late:

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Mmm, that could be of interest to my beekeeper of an uncle.

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Err… it’s Mat Kelcey.

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They aren’t on the database yet

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That sounds better than bee license backpacks. It’s hard enough for them to fly in the first place without having to lug a backpack around, and be called nerds by the other bees.

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I want to use a Raspberry Pi to measure the traffic at our hummingbird feeder. I might take a look to see if I can steal adapt anything from this project. (Motion detection might be good enough. It’s very rare to have more than one at a time, so counting them isn’t an issue.)

This UofT setup is clever, but it looks like a hummingbird NMR.

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