Here is another "I love it" comment.
Genuinely giving the OP props
Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
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Re: Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
#262This is the coolest thing on HN that I've seen in a minute. The whole thing is a perfect blend of ideas with the end result of something that feels... magical. Honestly this is the highest inspiration to me as a builder as I just want to create magical experiences, even if they are just small oddities.
Really cool, except the price. Around 500 Euro for the full thing... I miss the times you could make amazing things with a Pi under 100 Euro.
If you have a Kobo (~ US$ 120 or even less used) you can run this using Cobalt https://github.com/BandarLabs/Cobalt/tree/beta/apps/birds
Re: Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
#263e-ink is so much fun, especially when combined with ESP32 or BTLE boards. I currently have 4 around my house displaying book quotes that I've highlighted in KOReader and they bring me joy each time I see them. They are simple and do one thing very well. I just got and setup a BTLE e-ink driver the other day and according to my calculations it will last _years_ on a single charge (2000mAh) even with multiple refreshes…
I want a Japanese woodprint inspired colour dashboard for my Home Assistant. I don't need it at all, but I want it so badly. Some sketches I did with chatgpt look amazing.
Colour e-ink are kinda small tho. Something like samsung frame tv might be better option.
Re: Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
#264Earlier quoted context omitted.
From the link: "Half the point of this project is showing off some amazing public-domain natural-history illustrations. Over 800 cut-outs covering more than 400 species, every one taken from a real plate and hand-curated for this project (no art is AI-generated, though some has been retouched with AI)."
Idk what "retouched with AI" means. Does it mean they used a segmentation model to cut out the shapes, or were they shoved through an imagegen and completely recreated?
At this point - does it even matter? AI photos are indistinguishable.
Re: Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
#265Earlier quoted context omitted.
Idk what "retouched with AI" means. Does it mean they used a segmentation model to cut out the shapes, or were they shoved through an imagegen and completely recreated?
At this point - does it even matter? AI photos are indistinguishable.
It matters to me because it claims to be "real, hand-cut 1800s bird illustrations" which is the whole appeal of this to me
Re: Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
#266The underlying classifier, BirdNET, is a traditional neural network and not an LLM: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101236
Are there any LLMs being widely used for audio classification? I know VLMs are being used a lot in image stuff. It always seems kind of silly to me to throw everything at an LLM. I know they’re huge and can automatically handle a huge number of tasks but something in me finds it wasteful when we could be creating easily trainable, cheap to run bespoke models for a lot of stuff
There’s still plenty of commercial work on specialized models, for the simple reason that they’re typically much cheaper to train and run.
Many systems now use LLMs in conjunction with specialized models.