Hardware Reference
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HAVE YOU EVER
wondered what the birds in your garden get up to when you're not watch-
ing? hanks to the Raspberry Pi, with a couple of taps on a smartphone you can monitor the
bird activity in your garden from anywhere in the world.
In this project, you will build a “techno-bird box” that will keep an eye on the comings and
goings of our feathered friends, recording when they enter and leave a nest box.
You can go on to program your Raspberry Pi to do a range of things when it detects a bird.
You might want to make it send a message by SMS, Twitter or e-mail or trigger a camera to
take a picture. You could log the activity and use it to draw a graph such as the one shown in
Figure 17-1.
Figure 17-1:
Bird activity
shown against
temperature.
You might want to combine this with other data to ind out more about bird behaviour. Are
they busier in the evening or early morning? Are your birds more active than your friends'
birds? You could store weather data and then see if temperature, rainfall and wind speed
make a diference.
