Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

	Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations(github.com)
	2389 points by arnemunthekaas 46 days ago \| 267 comments
	tl;dr: A Raspberry Pi project that uses BirdNET-Go to detect birds by audio in real time and displays the matched species on an Inky Impression e-ink panel (or web kiosk) as hand-curated 1800s natural-history illustrations. The library includes 800+ public-domain cutouts covering 400+ species, arranged on a textured page with larger birds centered and sized by body mass. Currently biased toward Scandinavian/British/Central European species, with a live demo running from the author's kitchen in Bergen, Norway.
	HN Discussion: ↑General admiration for the project as magical and inspiring builder work ↑Enthusiasm for e-ink displays as a versatile, joy-bringing medium for small projects •Technical clarification that BirdNET is a traditional neural network, not an LLM •Recognition of BirdNET-Go as the catalyst enabling a wave of bird-detection projects ↑Sharing related BirdTech projects inspired by or parallel to this work