Bird-recognising e-ink frame that draws garden birds as 1800s illustrations
Fugleramme shows the birds your garden mic has heard as public-domain 1800s illustrations, on e-ink, a TV or any browser.
Fugleramme is a picture frame that draws the birds your garden has just sung about. It sits on top of BirdNET-Go, a self-hosted analyser that listens through a microphone and names the species it hears, then shows the recent ones as natural-history illustrations from the 1800s.
The builder runs it on a Raspberry Pi 5 with an e-ink display. It also works on a TV, any screen or a browser, in Docker or anywhere with Python, and it all runs locally and offline. No birds nearby? It can read from a BirdWeather station instead. The artwork is more than 1,200 hand-cut birds from scanned books, covering over 700 species, all attributed and public domain. None of the images are AI-generated; the AI here is BirdNET’s sound model.
You’ll need a working BirdNET-Go setup first. Source and docs are on u/arnegiacomo’s GitHub, and there’s a live demo from their garden at fugleramme.arnegiacomo.dev.
All credit to u/arnegiacomo. The full story is at the original source.
