I bought Peterson’s Vogelgids, just for fun. It’s an old version, but that’s on purpose.
Then I saw a little project named BirdNet Pi. (I used the Android app already)
This is a Raspberry installation which recognises bird sounds. And gives you statistics about the detected birds. Cool for identifying birds in my garden.
The plan is to hide these in the woods, and children have to find them using a scanner device.
3D printed scanner (model not mine, but changed to hold electronics
Using a ESP32 with bluetooth, using RSSI (strength of signal) I can limit the range of detection.
The order of finding the tags is important, so a hidden tag should not be found when another should be found first.
These tags, hidden in toys, should be placed in a treasure chest. (In order) Then lights and sounds should hint the kids that they have successfully completed the mission.
New version has a beeper on the left. .. sorry .. hayfever
So same detecting but even shorter range ESP is hidden in the Chest.
Some leds or a single blinking one should give hints about the distance of the object.
This weekend we went to Nerdland in Belgium. I saw a cool game when we had to wait before some talks started.
What is so special about pong? Well, half of the audience was playing the other part of the audience. 250 against 250 Multiplayer. It used mqtt websockets, and the audience mobile phones with tilting. Average of 33+ % choosing up? Paddle goes up, Center and down the same.
I think I can make it myself. So below my two days progression. MQTT via internet. Sound and score counter. Using the mobile phone’s tilt sensor.
I changed left and right because we sat in the wrong chairs.
Maybe I’m going to change it into some 3D maze game. Code soon
I was planning to make a RSS reader using this display, but I came across a weather display project I wanted to check out. (So I probably end up buying another one)
There are many questions and issues around this project using the S3.