Open Source Hardware Certifications for February 2025
February added boards for bikes, the Apisuru beehive frame, and a LAN tap throwing-star to OSHWA’s certifications.
beekeeping
Make:cast – Machine Learning for Beekeepers
You can learn a lot about the health of a hive by listening to the sounds that bees make, as a beekeeper would do. The developers of the LongHive project, featured in Make Magazine Vol 75, tell us about their efforts to use machine learning to detect the presence of the queen bee by recording the sounds of the bees in the hive.
Build a Backyard Bee Hotel
Ideas and instructions for building a 5-star bee hotel for solitary bees
How to Make a Safe Watering Hole for Bees
It’s spring and that means it’s time for nature’s critical pollinators to get busy. As you undoubtedly know, bee populations are in trouble and can use any kind of help they can get. Bees work hard this time of year and need available sources of water to rehydrate. They get this water from places like […]
Beekeeper Sculpture Contains an Actual Bee Hive
Artist Brian Fernandes-Halloran pays homage an eccentric beekeeper with a sculpture made from found objects, which is also a functional apiary!
Buzz Booth
Bees are clearly the makers of the insect world. And just like humans, some bees prefer working alone to working amongst the distracting buzz of social collaboration.
Scientific Mom at Ignite Phoenix
Amy Oyler, The Scientific Mom, and her daughter have learning adventures. Tune in to Phoenix Ignite on Oct. 18th 2013, at 6:30 pm (MST) to hear about their day spent as beekeepers. There are 18 speakers in all. The event will be streamed live on the front page of Ignite Phoenix.
